News ReleaseNational Park ServiceJune 4, 2019 Coulee Dam – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,276,723 visitors to Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area in 2018 spent over $56 million in communities near the…
News Release: Washington Department of Fish and WildlifeJune 6, 2019 SPOKANE – The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will open a harvest fishery for white sturgeon in Lake Roosevelt starting June 15….
Two community meetings are being held to review ongoing work at Midnite Mine. Click here for flyer. Midnite Mine is an inactive former uranium mine located on the reservation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians. The superfund…
Spokane Tribal Fisheries has tagged 20,000 rainbow trout for a study on 2 different stocks of hatchery fish being released into Lake Roosevelt. Collection of tags is critical to hatchery research needed to keep this…
The waterfront area in front of Northport City Park and boat launch is expected to have visitors at the end of March and/or beginning of April. Under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology,…
More in-river sampling is being scheduled for 2019 between the Marcus area and the Canadian Border as a continuation of preliminary work started in 2018 for the third phase of the Sediment Study (Phase 3)….
Over a decade has passed since EPA reached agreement with Teck in 2006 to conduct an Upper Columbia Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS). Thus far, the efforts remain in the investigative phase to identify the nature…
Up to $301,473 dollars from BPA Fish and Wildlife Program cost savings and other accounts will provide additional funding for Spokane Tribe of Indians, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Colville Confederated Tribe northern…
The 2018 Lake Roosevelt Conference had record attendance with 294 people participating in one or both days of the conference. Click here to view presentations. Click here for Northwest Power and Conservation blog summarizing key parts…
By Eric Weatherman, Columbia Navigation The current high run off and flooding conditions combined with the current low lake levels on Lake Roosevelt are causing floating wood debris to escape from the established catch boom…
The backdrop for Forum activities is the unique and distinct needs of Lake Roosevelt, which resulted from creating a reservoir to support operational capacity at Grand Coulee Dam. Two Indian tribes, federal agencies, state agencies and four counties have specific interests in the management of the lake. Individually and collectively, they seek to meet a diverse set of environmental, economic and cultural needs.
Lake Roosevelt Forum continues to successfully engage in a set of public outreach activities intended to further strengthen collaboration and cooperation among the many stakeholders with interests in and around Lake Roosevelt.
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