Just a dozen miles northwest of downtown Portland, a cornucopia of wildlife, notably song birds and more than 200,000 migrating waterfowl annually, inhabit the low-lying, marshy backwaters of the Shillapoo Wildlife Area, part of the Vancouver Lake lowlands adjacent to
In revising the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program in 2014, the Council committed to define and develop a long-term maintenance plan and process to ensure that past investments in projects that implement the program remain properly functioning and
On September 18, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision affirming the Council’s consideration of fish and wildlife interests in developing its Sixth Northwest Conservation and Electric Power Plan in 2010. The ruling came
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s panel of independent scientists recently completed a review of 71 projects to implement the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program over the next several years, finding that just 14 of them “meet
The Council's Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program depends on local watershed plans--subbasin plans--to inform its recommendations about what projects to fund. These plans connect all the various fish and wildlife actions already underway, identify problems that need attention, and
