What is undoubtedly the most-important meeting of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) regarding ocean groundfish, Pacific halibut and salmon will be taking place this week from March 7 - 13 at the Hilton Vancouver Hotel in Vancouver, Washington. During that meeting, the 2017 Preseason Report I for ocean salmon stock abundance projections will be adopted. "Preliminarily, it looks like we may have...
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The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest wildlife conservation group in the U.S., today praised the bipartisan confirmation of U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) as the new Secretary of the Department of the Interior. "This is good news for all Americans who cherish what our founder Theodore Roosevelt called the true health and wealth of our country - our natural resources,"...
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Oroville Dam work continues around the clock as the dam's spillway becomes the poster child of failing infrastructure. A reality that can only be dealt with, concerns continue as the mammoth requirements for repairs and improvements were revealed when the water to the spillway was completely shut off. Originally found on Maven's Notebook, below is an update of the situation provided...
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