Surface Water: After three rounds of sampling (completed in 2009 and 2010) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show Lake Roosevelt and the Upper Columbia general water quality safe for swimming. Further, surface water concentrations…
Do you have fond memories of school field trips? Each year agency and community volunteers create these lifelong memories for children living around the Lake Roosevelt area.
The Forum celebrated the beginning of October by taking 43 people on a bus tour of the upper Columbia.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council has taken a very significant step toward the vision of reintroducing salmon and steelhead above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams.
One of the most remarkable outcomes in discussions to modernize the Columbia River Treaty is whether to embrace and support anadromous salmon and other fish once again migrating the Columbia past Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams and into Canada.
The Grand Coulee Dam web site, www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee, now includes a couple of videos taking you to the future and past. A three minute video, “Revitalizing and Managing the Nation’s Powerhouse,” includes time lapse video of…
The Columbia River Basin 2014 Conference, Learning From Our Past to Shape Our Future, took place in Spokane, Washington on October 21-23.
For anyone who has visited Lake Roosevelt, they know that spotty cell service is the norm. As over 90 percent of U.S. adults have cell phones, making it the most quickly adopted consumer technology ever, that introduces both inconvenience and safety concerns.
Four houseboats took 48 elected officials, opinion leaders, natural resource managers, stakeholders and concerned citizens on a day long house boat tour from Keller Ferry to Seven Bays Marina.
It’s been over seventy years since Grand Coulee Dam forever altered native fish migrations. With the completion of the new Barnaby Creek Culvert, the Colville Tribe, with funding from the Bonneville Power Administration, have taken…
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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