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In the primary election on May 17, 1988, Oregon voters approved Measure 1, authorizing loans for fish protection and watershed restoration. [5] In 1993, Senate Bill 81 of the Legislature provided $10 million for the Grande Ronde in Northeastern Oregon, and the South Coast and Rogue Basins in Southwestern Oregon, a pilot project known as the ...
On February 12, 2001 Oregon Health Department issued a mercury-related health advisory for fish caught in the reservoir. [6] [7] However, municipal water from the reservoir was deemed safe to drink, and the mercury posed no threat to recreational activities in the lake. Mercury levels in the fish were not expected to diminish in the foreseeable ...
The NQ Dry Tropics (formerly Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM) Coastal Catchments Initiative (CCI) project intends to achieve pollutant reductions by facilitating the development and implementation of a BDT Water Quality Improvement Plan (WQIP). The CCI project is a collaborative activity amongst various Government agencies, science providers, industry ...
State Sen. Jeff Golden, the chair of the chamber's natural resources committee, has requested that the departments of Fish and Wildlife, Water Resources and Environmental Quality submit a report ...
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality faces pressing challenges such as the escalating effects of climate change, a growing public demand for services and persistent funding limitations ...
Fish stocking is the practice of releasing fish that are artificially raised in a hatchery into a natural body of water (river, lake, or ocean), to supplement existing wild populations or to create a new population where previously none exists.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said the new closures were due to “historic high levels” of a marine biotoxin known as paralytic shellfish poisoning.
The Freshwater Trust returns degraded streams to healthy conditions. [4] Restoration actions include planting streamside, or riparian, forests to provide shade to a stream and stabilize banks; placing large woody structures instream to provide habitat for spawning and rearing habitat; restoring flow to dewatered streams; and reconnecting streams to closed floodplains.