Bear River Dam Removed
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By Associated Press  GRACE, Idaho -- An aging, out-of-service dam on the Bear River in southeastern Idaho is expected to be demolished by today, a move environmentalists say will improve the habitat for dwindling numbers of Bonneville cutthroat trout.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 16--Fort Huachuca could add up to 3,000 new jobs if needed without harming the San Pedro River, because it has cut its water use enough to offset longtime environmental concerns, a federal agency decided Friday.   The U.S.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 3--Replacing all the power benefits from the lower Snake River dams would cost $400 million to $550 million yearly, the Bonneville Power Administration announced Friday.
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A Cache Valley egg producer will no longer pay a fine to the state of Utah for discharging wastewater from a manure-composting operation into the Cub River.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  May 25--Bulldozers replaced bass boats on a dried patch of Lake Okeechobee on Thursday, scraping away the muck-caked consequences of turning the once-pristine lake into Florida's largest retention pond.
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By Russell Lissau Daily Herald Staff Writer  The already-small gap separating the northern and southern legs of Lake County's Des Plaines River Trail will shrink again this year.
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The American bald eagle, pushed to  near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is  now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species  list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday.
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Wildlife officials in Baker Lake Resort, Washington, recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Mar. 9--In 2006, Tradewater/Lower Green River Watershed Watch conducted fewer water tests than usual in the Owensboro region because of limited funds.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  May 29--Side channel projects to restore fish habitat along a stretch of the Missouri River have come to a halt under pressure from the state's Clean Water Commission.   The U.S.
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By Jake Thompson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Mar. 7--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't release extra water into the Missouri River this spring to try to help the ancient pallid sturgeon because water levels in reservoirs upriver are too low.
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By Cyndy Cole, The Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff  Feb. 7--Salt River Project announced it would not attempt to clean up and  restart power production at the coal-burning Mohave Generating Station in  Laughlin, Nev., because the venture would not be profitable.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 16--MARYVILLE -- The days of fishing with wild abandon in Maryville's Drost Park Lake are over. Now there are rules.
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By Mike Monson, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 28--CHAMPAIGN The state of relations between the city of Champaign  and Illinois American Water was summed up with one gesture Tuesday night: a  walkout.
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By MELODIE N MARTIN  The public will receive an update and have opportunities to ask questions this evening regarding plans to repair a dam on the Chickahominy River that was breached last month.
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KIEV, November 3 (Itar-Tass) - Water cannons and armoured personnel carriers were removed from the territory of the Ukrainian central election commission on Wednesday.
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PUEBLO VIEJO, Guatemala  - Mayan Indians ended a  siege of Guatemala's largest dam on Wednesday after the  government agreed to consider demands they be compensated for  land and lives lost in massacres when it was built.