Lynda V. Mapes, Tribune News Service The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths ...

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...

"When fish can't reach their habitat, they can't reproduce," national habitat conservation organization NOAA Fisheries said.

The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy. It was a history-making few weeks. Putting the sad plights of the iconic SWKW in an international news ...

What organizers hope is the final application before Billy Frank Jr. is memorialized in the U.S. Capitol, has been submitted, ...

What scientific proof do we have that this will help? Are there tagged Snake River salmon swimming in Puget Sound? Let’s face it our southern resident orcas are swimming through polluted waters of our ...

I don’t believe tearing down the four lower dams on the Snake River will help our local orca ... unchecked development it is only a matter of time until the whales will starve out.

the Pacific golden plover was spotted for the first time in significant numbers. Dr Prakash expressed concern over the shrinking natural habitat of migratory birds at the dam due to increasing ...

For the first time in over a hundred years, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members can catch salmon on a free-flowing Elwha. It’s been over a decade since two dams came out of the Elwha River on ...

This was a time period marked by an upsurge in commitment ... despite success stories like the Elwha River dam removal. “You can look around and find those stories,” he said.