Salmon

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal authorities are working on a plan aimed at deciding how much sport, commercial and tribal fishing for salmon and steelhead will be allowed in the Columbia River and its tributaries.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making big improvements in fish passage facilities at Lower Granite Dam, hoping to increase the number of endangered salmon and steelhead that migrate through the Columbia-Snake river system.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Northwest fisheries managers are creating a response plan should there be a return of warm water conditions biologists say was the main factor in killing some 90 percent of adult sockeye salmon returning to the Columbia Basin last summer.

HELLS CANYON, Idaho (News Release) – Record numbers of Chinook salmon returned to spawn in the Snake River Basin below Hells Canyon Dam last fall. Idaho Power biologists counted the fishes’ nesting areas using an unmanned aerial vehicle.

BOISE, Idaho (KTVB) -- Saturday will mark the three-month anniversary of DeOrr Kunz Jr.'s disappearance. DeOrr's parents reported the two-year-old missing on July 10th while camping in Lemhi County.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More endangered sockeye salmon have made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho's high-elevation Redfish Lake this fall than in any previous year going back nearly six decades.

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the Nature Conservancy say they have reached an agreement to protect more than 1,600 acres critical to protecting fish and restoring stream flows in the Pashimeroi River. The conservation group announced the deal late last month to set aside land at Big Creek Ranch into a conservation easement...

The snowpack around southern Idaho this year is just a little behind what it was last year but Idaho’s water experts say we are still in good shape.  Ron Abramovich with the Natural Resources Conservation Service says with some of the snowfall arriving a little late this year, it could be a sign that our spring will be cooler.

A smoky haze is hanging over the Magic Valley area and other parts of southern Idaho this week.  Although there are no fires burning locally, officials say the smoke could be coming from three other fires burning in Idaho right now.  There are two fires burning in the Salmon-Challis National Forest...