Helicopters drop thousands of logs into rivers in the U.S. to save salmon and restore historically damaged ecosystems.

Oct. 27—As the rainy season arrives and water levels rise, salmon are migrating upstream to their spawning grounds, with many getting there through the streams that run through popular trails, ...

Alaska is about to get thousands of miles of new salmon habitat — and how we manage that habitat will have long-term implications for the salmon that find it. By the year 2100, melting glaciers will ...

Fall Chinook salmon at the Priest Rapids hatchery. More than $3.4 million is on its way to Whatcom County to fund three projects aimed at restoring salmon habitat. Wild salmon and steelhead species in ...

SEQUIM — In building logjams for salmon habitat in the Gray Wolf River, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe took lessons from the river itself. By building structures out of logs with rootwads and using ...

On a research boat on the Columbia River, Laurie Weitkamp with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grabs two buckets filled with water and about a dozen young salmon and steelhead.

As human-caused climate change points a giant hair dryer at Western North America’s glaciers, melting them ever more rapidly, potential Pacific salmon habitat is opening up. New river systems are ...

Alaskans will soon vote on Ballot Measure 1, the controversial initiative aimed at protecting Alaska’s salmon habitat. Companies behind big proposed mines and oil developments have helped raise ...

Salmon is a deeply ingrained element of Washington state’s heritage and economy. We rely on salmon for food, recreation, jobs and cultural traditions. In the 1990s, Washington salmon were encountering ...

Jonathan Moore of Simon Fraser University studies sockeye salmon in a formerly glaciated river within the Taku watershed in British Columbia, Canada. (Photo courtesy of Mark Connor) The Gitanyow ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --Melting glaciers may produce thousands of miles of new Pacific salmon habitat, a study published Tuesday by Nature Communications found. As glaciers in the mountains of western North ...