Friday, November 20, 2009
Click here for RSS feedDairy farmers in Southern Idaho have something to be thankful for this month, even in the depths of the industry's worst downturn in decades. They've received 3,600 acre-feet of water to mitigate for the impact that dairy ground water pumping has had on senior water rights holders in the ...
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SEATTLE (AP) -- The federal Government Accountability Office has denied an appeal that protested the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to move its research fleet from Seattle's Lake Union to Newport, Ore. On Thursday, the GAO essentially said the appeal was n ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:19 AM
NILE, Wash. (AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish. The landslide that inundated the Naches River last month created a barrier of millions of cubic yards of silt, mud a ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 8:49 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The U.S. House has approved protection for a stretch of the Molalla River in Clackamas County. Local groups hope it will further the recovery of a stream degraded over the years by logging, illegal camping and partying. The vote Thur ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:52 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Cloud seeding once was seen similar to well divining, medicine shows and miracle healers. But today Idaho Power Co. is investing up to $1 million to seed the clouds above Idaho's mountains, in hopes of increasing the snowpack that holds the water that will dr ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:18 AM
SEATTLE (AP) -- A jury in Seattle awarded $1.5 million to man injured aboard a fish-processing vessel. The Seattle Times reports the King County jury on Monday found that Icicle Seafoods failed to pay for medical care for 55-year-old Dana Clausen. He who was injured in 2006 while try ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:19 AM
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge says the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should have considered the environmental impacts before moving forward with a plan to protect a threatened California fish species. The Fish and Wildlife Service rewrote its rules governing the management of the delta sm ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:18 AM
BOULDER, Utah (AP) -- A new partnership will fight the spread of Russian olive and other invasive weeds on private and public lands in southern Utah's Escalante River watershed. The Escalante River Watershed Partnership was formed in June. Using seed money from the National Park Foundation the ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:48 AM
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington's inland marine waters officially have a new name -- the Salish Sea. U.S. Board on Geographic Names Executive Secretary Lou Yost says the board approved the name Thursday. That means Salish Sea can now be added to maps and other materials. Washington ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:49 AM
TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) -- A historic Lake Tahoe fish hatchery will become home to a public science exhibit. University of California-Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center officials say they secured sufficient funding to open the exhibit in July 2010 in Tahoe City. UC Davis ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:34 AM
The Center for Environmental Law and Policy plans to sue the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation over plans to draw water from the Columbia River in Eastern Washington. Claiming a failure to protect endangered salmon and steelhead, the center hopes to stop the bureau from building the Weber Siphon, a ne ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:03 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was promoting a complex legislative package to rebuild California's water system, he often appeared alongside farmers who were unable to cultivate their land amid a third year of drought and federal pumping restrictions. Y ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:48 AM
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has won a $3.1 million grant to fund what it calls an innovative graduate education program. The interdisciplinary is aimed at preparing future scientists, policymakers and natural resource managers to address water issues. ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:18 AM
Junior ground water users in Southern Idaho have been put on notice once again that their pumps could be shut down -- this time for the 2010 irrigation season. Gary Spackman, interim director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, issued a notice of potential curtailment on Nov. 2 to ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
FRIANT, Calif (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years. Yet at a time when several Western states are preparing to tear down dams ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:33 AM
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- After decades of counting live salmon and steelhead reaching the upper Rogue River, biologists will be stuck counting only dead ones if Gold Ray Dam and its long-standing fish-counting station disappear as proposed next fall. Jackson County is weighing whether to remove th ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:33 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- An $11.1 billion water bond approved this week by California lawmakers is filled with special interest earmarks that reward legislative districts in nearly every corner of the state, from $20 million for economic development in a rural northern county to $10 mi ...
Monday, November 09, 2009 11:03 AM
DENVER (AP) -- Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study says. A similar phenomenon is occurring in Sweden and Norway, according to the study of about 90 high-elev ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:34 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders say their $11.1 billion water bond is an essential investment for California's future, but it may be a hard sell to voters. California already is saddled with debt, and the bond measure that will appear on the Nove ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:48 AM
Bill Sagvold raised his hand to ask a question during the Columbia Basin Development League's annual conference. "I am 81 years old," he said. "How old do you think I will be when you complete this project?" That question was on many minds during the conference in Moses Lake, Wash., ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers on Wednesday passed an $11 billion overhaul of the state's antiquated water system in a bid to supply a soaring population while preserving a fragile environment. After a long night of debate, the state Assembly voted in favor of ...
Friday, November 06, 2009 9:18 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A package of bills intended to alleviate California's water woes is scheduled to be voted on in the California Legislature but a compromise remains elusive. Republican and Democratic lawmakers continue to haggle over key elements that are threatening to sink a complex ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:04 AM
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a southern Idaho feedlot manager convicted of violating drinking water laws was actually pumping contaminated wastewater in the aquifer below his operation. Cory King, co-owner of Double C Farms near Burley, was convicted in April on four counts ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:34 AM
LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Researchers at Utah State University said they have found a predictable pattern to the wet-dry cycles of northern Utah. The discovery of a rhythm could be useful in helping to manage crops, reservoirs and water use, said Rob Gillies, the director of the Utah Climate Center. ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:18 PM
SEATTLE (AP) -- The National Weather Service is promising to beef up its efforts to predict heavy rains and possible flooding for the Green River Valley south of Seattle. A weakened earthen embankment at Howard Hanson Dam has increased the risk of flooding this winter in the valley south of Sea ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:03 PM
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) -- Fisheries experts say there's been a big run of coho salmon this year up the Umatilla River in Eastern Oregon. It's expected to be the second largest run since efforts began in the 1980s to restore the fish to the Umatilla after a 70-year absence. So far, tribal and ...
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