NEZ PERCE COUNTY, ID. — The Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office says they found a man dead in the Clearwater River on Sunday. The sheriff's office says the body was found in the river near Gibbs Eddy ...

LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season. For ...

FISHING – A gillnet fishing season for Nez Perce Tribe members has been catching Snake-Clearwater steelhead and salmon anglers by surprise – mostly because some nets are not marked with lights at ...

On 05/28/2023 Deputies were dispatched to a deceased person found in the Clearwater River near Gibbs Eddy off of Highway 12. The identity of the individual is unknown. He is a white male with medium ...

NEZ PERCE COUNTY, Idaho - The Express Fire is now 100% contained according to Nez Perce County Emergency Management. Fire crews from Idaho Department of Lands and Nez Perce Tribe Fire continue to ...

For the tribe, the move is about harvesting its share of the run, something that rarely happens in the Clearwater River and its tributaries during bigger return years. But the tribe also wants to make ...

LEWISTON, Idaho — The Nez Perce Tribe in northern Idaho has approved a commercial fishing season allowing gillnets on the Clearwater River for spring chinook. The Lewiston Tribune reports the tribe ...

LEWISTON — In a cavernous warehouse above the Clearwater River east of Lewiston, 1.14 million spring chinook swam, swirling together into evanescent balls of silver, breaking into smaller ...

KAMIAH, Idaho. — Prescribed fire treatments will be happening at the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests as weather and conditions allow, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The ...

tribe's foothold in the Snake River basin teemed with nearly half a million fall chinook. By the 1980s, returns averaged 600 a year, thanks largely to hydropower dams that eliminated 85 percent of the ...

Snow-crested summits of northeast Oregon's Wallowa Mountains lord over the emerald-colored fields far below. Melting mountain snows give rise to shimmering rivers that flow across the valley's green ...

And yet a Nez Perce tribal study published this month found that wild spring and summer chinook populations are declining by 19% per year. If trends continue, by 2025 77% of the Snake River basin ...