Thursday, September 02, 2010
Click here for RSS feedSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The federal government has declared a natural disaster area in the California-Oregon border region in an effort to bring relief to farmers and ranchers stricken by an ongoing drought, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced Thursday. The declaration officially labe ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 5:29 PM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Sampling by environmental groups has found oysters contaminated with oil along the Louisiana coast befouled by the BP PLC oil spill, a finding that casts doubt on statements by state and federal officials that all seafood tested here is safe to eat. Batches of oyste ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:09 AM
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) -- The National Park Service has picked a Bozeman, Mont., construction company to remove two massive dams on the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Officials say dam removal will allow fish to access miles of river that were blocked off decades ag ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:29 AM
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- Work has begun on the final phase of a massive, $25 million wetlands restoration project along the Napa River. An excavator on Wednesday ripped through a barrier between the river and a 1,400-acre swath of former salt ponds on an island near the Napa County Airpo ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 8:48 AM
OROFINO, Idaho (AP) -- An engineering firm will begin work soon to repair leaks at north-central Idaho's Dworshak Dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired Jacobs Engineering of Seattle to inject urethane in joints between some of the huge concrete blocks that make up the dam. The ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:30 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld protections for wild steelhead trout in California rivers, rejecting a challenge by Central Valley farmers to the fish's endangered status. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that federal fisheries regulators acted with ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:29 PM
Water that runs off logging roads through culverts and ditches should be subject to Clean Water Act regulations, according to a federal appeals court ruling. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is expected to affect private and public forest lands that include manmade channels for ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:09 AM
The Columbia Basin Development League is looking for someone with a background in agriculture to serve as its new executive director. The league, based in Royal City, Wash., is accepting applications for the position until Sept. 11. The league is a non-profit organization that supports the Co ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
As California's drought dragged out over the past three years, the San Joaquin Valley town of Mendota became a household name, its ranks of idled workers swelling while thousands of acres sat fallow. On the southern outskirts of town, behind the empty Spreckels sugar plant -- abandoned by a s ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 10:09 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials plan to rewrite the rules that allowed tens of thousands of rural homes to be built without water permits. Tom Schultz heads the water resources division with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. He said Wednesday the agency ...
Friday, August 20, 2010 4:49 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Cheese producer Sorrento Lactalis Inc. has agreed to pay a $315 ,000 penalty for violating its wastewater permit at its factory in Nampa. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the agreement Wednesday. EPA officials say the company repeatedly violated its per ...
Friday, August 20, 2010 1:29 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that reaches salmon streams. A conservation group that filed the lawsuit said if the ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:49 PM
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A powerful Easter Sunday earthquake along the Mexico border has had ripple effects in Nevada, spurring international talks about future use of the Colorado River and the water level in Lake Mead. United States and Mexico federal officials met recently at the Southern Nevada ...
Monday, August 16, 2010 1:38 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- PPL Montana is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the state of Montana from seizing ownership of riverbeds and forcing rent payments, arguing other states may copy the move. PPL Montana is fighting for relief from a state Supreme Court decision forcing it to pa ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Another look at sediment behind dams on the Klamath River confirms earlier findings that there is not enough contamination to pose extra costs or a risk to public health if the dams are removed. The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that a more tho ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 3:58 PM
GOLD HILL, Ore. (AP) -- The Rogue River decided it was time to flow, and is now sweeping freely past the remains of Gold Ray Dam in southern Oregon. The river unexpectedly breached a sand spit holding back a slough on Wednesday, a week and a half sooner than the construction crew rem ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:19 AM
California ag-water interests say a report calling for greater Delta flows is distracting attention from the state's realistic water-supply goals and is too narrow in scope to be of real use. The report, approved on Aug. 3 by the State Water Resources Control Board, said the water pumped from ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:19 AM
YACOLT, Wash. -- Though "common wisdom" often advises rural residents to have their septic tanks pumped every one or two years, Tom Gonzales says that can often be extended with proper maintenance. Gonzales is program manager for Clark County, Wash., Public Health. "Inspect your system, ke ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:19 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Supporters of California's $11.1 billion water bond are scrambling to pull it from the November ballot and shelve it until 2012, when they hope the state's fiscal climate will have improved. At the urging of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state Senate is sc ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:58 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Obama administration is analyzing how federal spending can make Columbia Basin salmon hatcheries less harmful to efforts to restore threatened and endangered populations of the Northwest fish. NOAA Fisheries Service released a draft Friday of an environment ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010 1:38 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Enough endangered sockeye salmon are returning to central Idaho this year that some will be allowed to swim the final few hundred yards into Redfish Lake under their own power, something that hasn't happened in two decades due to dismal spawning runs. State biologi ...
Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:19 AM
The Legislature could soon pass a bill that would revoke farmers' pesticide licenses if they don't participate in regional water-quality programs. AB2595, by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, would require county agricultural commissioners to withhold pesticide-application permits from far ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:18 AM
Ground water pumpers will have to provide additional water to two Magic Valley fish farms or face curtailment, Idaho's top water official has determined. Pumpers with junior water rights have until March 1, 2011, to get an approved mitigation plan in place for Blue Lakes Trout Co. and Snake R ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:18 AM
LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Work to restore the full flow of irrigation water to thousands of acres of northern Utah farmland could be delayed now that a more in-depth environmental study on a canal project is planned. The water flow was lost in summer 2009 when a mudslide killed a mother and her tw ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 5:18 PM
GURLEY, Ala. (AP) -- Most mornings, Jimmy Sparks arrives at his farm about 5:30, makes himself a cup of coffee and watches the sun rise over the fields and mountains. On his one 1 1/2-acre farm between Hampton Cove and New Hope, about 15 miles from downtown Huntsville, Sparks tend ...
Sunday, August 01, 2010 8:39 AM
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- Police have identified the man found dead in an empty pond at a Vancouver fish hatchery as 49-year-old Robert Bunnell of Vancouver. In a statement Wednesday, Vancouver police said no cause of death has yet been determined and an investigation continues. ...
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