LEWISTON — In a cavernous warehouse above the Clearwater River east of Lewiston, 1.14 million spring chinook swam, swirling together into evanescent balls of silver, breaking into smaller ...

NEZ PERCE COUNTY, Idaho — Are you looking for something to do this weekend in Idaho? The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests and other groups are hosting the 34th annual Free Fishing Day! Free ...

Jasmine Higheagle is the secretary for the Nez Perce Fish and Wildlife Commission. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding ...

LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season. For ...

Nez Perce tribal fishers tend a gillnet on Lower Granite Reservoir. The tribe intends to use gill nets and drift nets on the Clearwater River this spring. Courtesy of Joseph Oatman Feeling crowded out ...

Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the spring chinook fishing season.

tribe's foothold in the Snake River basin teemed with nearly half a million fall chinook. By the 1980s, returns averaged 600 a year, thanks largely to hydropower dams that eliminated 85 percent of the ...

That investment is essential for a people — the Nimiipúu — for whom fish, particularly chinook salmon, have played a keystone spiritual, cultural and economic role for more than 16,000 years. For ...

And yet a Nez Perce tribal study published this month found that wild spring and summer chinook populations are declining by 19% per year. If trends continue, by 2025 77% of the Snake River basin ...

LEWISTON – In a cavernous warehouse above the Clearwater River east of Lewiston, 1.14 million spring chinook swam, swirling together into evanescent balls of silver, breaking into smaller ...