Habitat restoration soars on Columbia River, but fish benefits are murky
By Scott Learn
The Oregonian
CHINOOK, Wash. — This winter, restoration workers punched a 12-foot concrete culvert through the rock rip-rap that lines the Columbia River near the ocean and waited for fish to hit wetlands walled off for a century.
They didn’t have to wait long.
On March 15, the first check, biologists counted 20 juvenile salmon. On April 29, the count totaled 723, mostly chinook and chum. Read More