An Oregon man is facing numerous criminal charges and a potentially hefty fine after he allegedly killed thousands of young salmon at a state hatchery rearing pond two weeks ago with a bottle of bleach. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said 20-year-old Joshua Alexander Heckathorn burglarized a hatchery near the towns of Reedsport and Gardiner […]
An Oregon man was arrested this week, accused of breaking into a Reedsport, Oregon, hatchery and pouring bleach into a rearing pond that killed 17,890 young Chinook salmon. The targeted Gardiner, Reedsport, Winchester Bay hatchery is part of Oregon’s volunteer Salmon Trout Enhancement Program and hosts four such tanks. The fish killed were intended for […]
An Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tanker truck crashed while carrying 102,000 captive-bred spring Chinook salmon smolt, sending 77,000 of them into the wrong waterway. The agency raised the smolt as part of a plan to mitigate reduced salmon populations due to hydropower generation. The smolts were intended for release into the Imnaha River. […]
The first decision that needs to be made on Valentine’s Day is: Eat in or go out? Since you are checking out this article and recipe, I‘m thinking that you (like me!) are of the stay-home-and-cook persuasion. So the next decision is a more involved one – what to make? Something special but not complicated. […]
EUREKA, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual […]
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