Video by Amber Tilton | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District | 03.28.2024
B-roll by Amber Tilton of spill operations at John Day Dam, March 28, 2024 After an agreement to stay the Columbia River Basin litigation for up to 10 years, federal water managers will begin spilling more water over basin dams this spring than in past years. This year, four projects on the lower Snake River and McNary Dam on the Columbia River will also begin spilling four hours each day......
Video by Tom Conning | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 04.11.2023
In April, the Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started spilling water on the Snake and Columbia rivers to help juvenile salmon migrate downstream. We met up with Julie Ammann, Reservoir Control Center chief at Bonneville Lock & Dam to check it out. “The amount of spill that we do and how that water is released through the spillway might change a little bit; we make......
Video by Ernest Henry | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District | 04.11.2023
B-roll package including images from Bonneville Lock & Dam. Footage includes the spillway, images of the Bradford Island Visitors Center and the Fish viewing window. Also includes interviews from Doug Baus, Fisheries Biologist and Julie Ammann, Chief of Reservoir Control Center for the Columbia River Basin....
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Bryan Mai | AFN Misawa | 03.18.2023
Misawa Air Base participated in the 24th annual salmon release with Oirase Town and the Oirase Tourist Association to release juvenile salmon into the Oirase River....
Video by Seaman Apprentice Sophia Bumps | Navy Public Affairs Support Element, Det. Northwest | 05.05.2022
Eighth graders from Blue Heron Middle School work alongside environmental personnel from United States Geological Survey Marrowstone Marine Field Station and other organizations survey the waters for updated salmon numbers during a beach seining at Naval Magazine Indian Island in Port Hadlock, Washington May 5, 2022. Fish and other organisms are counted and recorded for the Kilisut Harbor......
Video by Tom Conning | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District | 11.26.2021
DEA Episode 54 - Fall Creek Drawdown Every November Fall Creek Drawdown to help Salmon pass through to the ocean
Video by Tom Conning | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District | 05.28.2021
Corps contractors monitor screw traps downstream of Cougar and Big Cliff dams, May 28, 2021. The water flow turns a large screw creating hydraulics, which keeps small fish from escaping the trap. These traps are collecting juvenile salmon after they pass through Lookout Point, Cougar and Big Cliff dams. We’ve changed operations at these dams to help with downstream fish passage – or......
Video by Tom Conning | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District | 05.28.2021
Corps contractors monitor screw traps downstream of Cougar and Big Cliff dams, May 28, 2021. The water flow turns a large screw creating hydraulics, which keeps small fish from escaping the trap. These traps are collecting juvenile salmon after they pass through Lookout Point, Cougar and Big Cliff dams. We’ve changed operations at these dams to help with downstream fish passage – or......
