This week’s photo, shows the Covington fish wheel, near Three-Mile Rapids, according to a museum record. As noted by reader and historian Marylin Urness, fish wheels were outlawed in 1934, and the presence of cottonwood trees in the background makes the exact location a little mysterious.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife media release
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Free news, online only: Fall Chinook fishing will be closed from the Hwy 730 bridge upstream to Threemile Dam in the Umatilla River from Sept. 22 through Nov. 30.
In the midst of salmon spawning, Parkdale Hatchery held a public tour on Sept. 8, introducing locals to the facility that’s trying to restore spring Chinook to the Hood River watershed.
WHITE SALMON — A colorful new mural in the heart of White Salmon’s city center is grabbing well-deserved attention. Painted by Gorge artists Mary Garcia and Angela LoJacono, the 1,800 square foot south wall of the Everybody’s Brewing building at 177 E. Jewett Blvd., previously bland gray, is now adorned with a rainbow splash of artistry.
Earlier this month, in an act of urgency after finding many young Chinook salmon dead in the vegetation along the Upper Klamath River near the Oregon-California border, scientists drove to an Oregon expert with several of the fish carcasses they normally would have mailed. Dead fish typically sink to the depths of the river or […]
