When the government gets ready to kill predators in a desperate effort to save prey, you can be sure that something's way wrong in nature ...

The Columbia River’s first federally approved sea lion killings of 2024 will likely begin next week, NOAA Fisheries told KOIN 6 News. The sea lion “removals” or “cullings” are carried ...

Sea lions piled atop the docks of a small town 60 miles from the ocean – an early sign that this year will again be marked by the animals’ outsize appetite for endangered fish, and the first year ...

The government-sanctioned killing of sea lions in the Columbia River and its tributaries has been approved by federal officials to help protect endangered salmon in the river.

A sea lion twirls in the Cowlitz River near Gearhart Gardens in Longview — more than 60 miles east of the mouth of the Columbia River. The state says it is harder to see the success of its sea ...

As starving sea lions wash ashore in California, biologists are counting a record number of California sea lions in the Columbia River. Coincidence? Probably not.

The federal government is expected to permit tribes and states to kill sea lions in the Columbia River to protect salmon. The protected mammals eat salmon herded by the dams.

Six federally protected sea lions were apparently shot to death on the Columbia River as they lay in open traps put out to ensnare the animals. State and federal authorities are investigating.

Ted Walsey’s shotgun cracked like thunder, lobbing a cracker shell into the Columbia River and sending the big brown sea lion beneath the surface in search of friendlier waters. But the boat and ...

More than 1,100 sea lions could be killed annually along a stretch of the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border to boost faltering populations of salmon and steelhead, federal officials ...

A sea lion tosses a partially eaten salmon in the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) SEATTLE -- Approval to kill up to 840 sea lions in a portion of the Columbia River ...

Boise, Idaho — More California sea lions preying on imperiled salmon in the Columbia River below a hydroelectric project on the Oregon-Washington border are being killed under a revised policy ...