NMFS Fish Habitat Consultation for Water Quality Toxics Standards for Idaho
NMFS Oregon Beaver Biological Opinion
Oregon Beaver BiOp new release June 19 2020
Despite recognizing that restoring beaver populations is key to recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead species, a federal agency just gave the go-ahead to keep killing beavers in Oregon.
NWEA Opening Brief Partial Summary Judgement – Idaho Mercury
Mercury is a pervasive toxic pollutant that has significant deleterious effects on aquatic life—including imperiled species of salmon—as well as on aquatic-dependent life, such as the birds and mammals that consume those fish.
NWEA v NMFS Columbia Refugia 2021 Complaint
Actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to its proposed approval of water quality standards developed by the State of Oregon under the federal Clean Water Act (“CWA”) for temperature and intragravel dissolved oxygen run the risk of jeopardizing threatened and endangered species that depend upon habitat of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. Specifically, EPA’s actions impact Lower Columbia River Chinook salmon (“LCR Chinook”), Upper Willamette River Chinook salmon (“UWR Chinook”), Lower Columbia River steelhead (“LCR steelhead”), Middle Columbia River steelhead (“MCR steelhead”), Upper Columbia River steelhead (“UCR steelhead”), and Upper Willamette River steelhead (“UWR steelhead”) (collectively, “imperiled salmon and steelhead” or the “impacted species”)—among the Pacific Northwest’s iconic salmonid species that depend on cold, clean water for their survival