By transforming a reservoir into a river for a brief window of time, it allows salmon, in this case endangered spring chinook, to spawn and rear in superior river habitat cut off for decades by ...

The region deserves a future with vibrant salmon runs ... amount of sediment pumped out by the Detroit Lake drawdown, into the North Santiam River, isn’t expected to be as dramatic as other ...

It’s part of a wider strategy to keep dams in place for flood control while reopening habitat blocked for decades to endangered salmon and steelhead ... Muddy water flowing from the reservoir, down ...