Administrator Elliot Mainzer made his annual appearance in front of the congressional subcommittee that authorizes BPA’s activities.

Burbot, a freshwater cod native to Idaho’s Kootenai River, had all but disappeared until BPA and its partners stepped into help the ailing fish.

The Portland-based high school team overcame a five-year run by Beaverton’s Westview to win the BPA Regional Science Bowl.

Several small restoration projects in the upper Salmon River subbasin are part of a larger effort to improve the health of the river and its tributaries. One of these was recently completed in Eighteenmile Creek near Leadore, Idaho.