Dry January and lower snowpack levels in B.C. raise summer water concerns
The B.C. River Forecast Centre says that a historically dry January in many parts of B.C. means snowpack levels across the ...
Idaho conservation groups file lawsuit challenging approval of Stibnite Gold Project
The groups argue that the mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, and ...
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Battle Ground contractor Tapani to helm East Fork Lewis River restoration project
Battle Ground contractor Tapani Inc. has been selected as the primary contractor for Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s habitat restoration project on the East Fork Lewis River.
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Lawsuit Challenges Massive Idaho Gold Mine Threatening Wildlife, Public Health
Local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to challenge its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains.
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Wary of Pebble Mine, Alaskans look to Montana, Idaho as cautionary tales in new documentary
"Unearth" follows two pairs of siblings who set out to understand what the mine might do to their home. It will screen during ...
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Lower Shields River Watershed to receive $1.5M from DEQ
The Livingston-based nonprofit Montana Freshwater Partners will receive $1.5 million over three years fromthe Montana ...
Colorado River negotiators express urgency, uncertainty as deadline nears
Lead negotiators from the Colorado River’s Upper Basin states expressed a dual sense of uncertainty and urgency on Tuesday, ...
Minnesota Capitol bill would bar copper-nickel mines within BWCA’s watershed
Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the ...
Post Register5d
Columbia River basin dam study to be revised
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation announced that they will update an environmental study on the management of federal dams along the Columbia and Snake ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune6h
Conservation groups sue U.S. Forest Service and others over Stibnite Gold Mine
A coalition of local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Tuesday, Feb. 18 for its approval of the ...
Yuba Water Agency and partners launch weather balloons to study atmospheric rivers
By Kayla Moeller Click here for updates on this story YUBA COUNTY (KOVR) — While most people were trying to stay out of the rain on Thursday, a group of researchers was out in the thick of it ...