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Mill Park | 8-13-14 | 10840-10848 SE Salmon St | PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE | EA 14- 185673

2014-07-30 20:39:10| PortlandOnline

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Hundreds of juvenile salmon die due to low flows, warm weather

2014-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times_Standard: After a recent population assessment of chinook salmon and steelhead found 54 adult and hundreds of juvenile fish dead in the Salmon River, researchers and tribes are concerned what the future will hold for the anadromous fish should the effects of drought persist. "We're all on alert," California Department of Fish and Wildlife environmental scientist Sara Borok said. "We don't to want lose this year's spring run. There's not a whole lot we can do other than have more rain dances." The 54...

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EPA Blocks Giant Alaska Mine to Protect Bristol Bay Salmon

2014-07-18 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed regulations to protect one of the world's most valuable salmon fisheries, in Bristol Bay, Alaska, from the risks posed by a proposed open pit mine nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and larger than Manhattan. This deposit of copper, gold and molybdenum is owned by Northern Dynasty Minerals based in Vancouver, Canada and the Pebble Limited Partnership, based in Anchorage, Alaska. It could become one of the largest open pit mines in the world...

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A Fresh Look at Iron, Plankton, Carbon, Salmon and Ocean Engineering

2014-07-18 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Two years ago this month, an edge-pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron-rich dust over one of the 60-mile-wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska. Their goal, in the face of steep declines in Pacific salmon catches, was to trigger a plankton population explosion with the infusion of iron, a vital nutrient thats...

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