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Trump actions threaten Willamette River salmon runs
By Mark Kirchmeier It happens every spring. Fishing boats appear on the gray-blue waters of the Willamette River from the Fremont Bridge to Kelly Point Park and anglers chase silver shadows of salmon beneath the waves. Many have fished the spring runs for decades just as centuries of Native Americans did before them. The tradition…
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Algae bloom an enemy to the epic journey of salmon, steelhead
The Pacific Northwest’s three iconic and endangered species — Chinook salmon, steelhead and lamprey eel — are now returning from the ocean and migrating up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to their birthplace streams and tributary rivers in an event called the fall run. On the peninsula we are surrounded by their migration on both…
