AltWeeklies Wire
Hook, Line and Sinkernew
Salmon fishermen in Northern California take issue with a lawsuit to halt the 2011 fishing season.
Chico News & Review |
Alastair Bland |
05-27-2011 |
Environment
What's all the Dam Fuss? The Army Corps Plays with Willamette's Water Flowsnew
The Army Corps of Engineers teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to change the way the river flows as part of their “Sustainable Rivers Project." The alliance will experiment with the way the Corps manages flows of water from the dams to see if it might alter the future for the fish and the river’s ecosystem. With TNC’s reputation for bowing to big business and the Corps’ bedraggled renown for bad projects like the “monumental negligence” that led to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it’s hard not to look at that particular pairing without some skepticism. But can the unlikely pairing improve the river, or is the Sustainable Rivers Project a greenwash scheme to make dammed rivers look better?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-03-2009 |
Environment
The Water Wars: San Francisco Bay and the Delta Are Dying and It Might Get Worsenew
Years of massive water diversions are putting the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary at risk. Massive projects that take freshwater from the delta appear linked to declines in bay and delta fisheries, threatening not just endangered species but California's salmon fishing industry, which lost more than $250 million last year as a result of declining salmon runs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
09-02-2009 |
Environment
Five Things to Love About Summer Foodnew
The summer eating season is in full swing. Here's what I eat to make the most of it.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Stett Holbrook |
07-24-2008 |
Food+Drink
Wild Salmon Supporters Urge You to Boycott Farmed Fishnew
At SalmonAid, a gathering to eulogize the disappearance of Pacific Salmon, supporters hope to change people's consumption habits.
East Bay Express |
Alastair Bland |
05-28-2008 |
Food+Drink
Salmon Caught in the Carbon Netnew
Our mania for wild, fresh boutique fish comes at a high environmental cost.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
05-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
Chives: A Sign of Springnew
Along with onions, garlic, and other pungent shoots and bulbs -- oddly including asparagus -- chives are part of the allium, or lily, family. Includes recipes for Chive and White Bean Hummus and Pan Roast Salmon with Chive Beurre Blanc.
Artvoice |
Joe George |
05-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Will an Island in Eugene Save the Columbia River's Salmon?new
What's behind low salmon numbers in the Columbia River Basin? The Army Corps of Engineers pins it on the Caspian tern, a fish-eating migratory bird species that likes to eat salmon smolt. The Corps' "relocation plan" will send the birds to other islands in Oregon and California, including one-acre square island recently built in the Fern Ridge Reservoir.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-04-2008 |
Environment
Troubled Waters: The Klamath River Messnew
The Klamath River of Oregon and California is an object lesson in what can go wrong when people start tinkering with natural ecosystems, and a paradigm of what's wrong with the way rivers have been managed in the West.
The Source Weekly |
H. Bruce Miller |
10-09-2007 |
Environment
Pulling the Plug on Snake River Dams
If four dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington State were removed to help salmon, would the power grid even notice?
The Inlander |
Kevin Taylor |
03-08-2007 |
Environment
New Hatchery Salmon Policy Could Doom Wild Stocksnew
Environmentalists and fishermen worry that how the Feds are determining the salmon population could mask the decline of wild salmon and remove their protections.
Eugene Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
03-07-2005 |
Environment
