Jes Burns / OPB A logjam on a river can be a beautiful thing – especially if you’re a salmon. Logjams collect the gravel salmon need to lay their eggs. But if you’re a spring chinook on the South ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Over the last century, Oregon let salmon runs go extinct in some parts of the state and then erased them from people’s knowledge, according to environmental groups behind a new ...

Spawning season has begun for Feather River Hatchery’s threatened spring-run Chinook salmon, whose population is at a historic low.“What’s happening this year is the lowest number of spring-run fish ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon, critical to Indigenous fishers along the Klamath River, are in steep decline. But two recent developments may offer a path to their recovery. Spring chinook salmon come of ...

To the Karuk Tribe, Ishi Pishi Falls on California’s Klamath River is the center of the world. Every spring, a nearby holy site is the location of the first of a set of ceremonies collectively called ...

!–paging_filter–pMarch is the time to plan a pilgrimage in honor of Northwest royalty. Spring-run chinook salmon—known as spring kings, or springers—are pushing up the lower Columbia River right now, ...

A study found that the genetic code of spring-run Chinook salmon, like these in California’s Butte Creek, vary from fall-run salmon only in the DNA variance governing migration times. (Courtesy of ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Native Fish Society and Umpqua Watersheds filed a notice today of their intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to force it to decide ...