Every spring, when the grass greens and the flowers bloom, young sockeye salmon in Lake Cle Elum get the urge to start their journey to the ocean. Most years they have to wait because their exit route ...

LAKE CLE ELUM - A crowd of guests lined the shore, some with cameras or smartphones in hand, craning for a look at what members of the Yakama Nation have waited more than a century to see. They would ...

Federal officials have adopted a plan for adding a fish ladder at Lake Cle Elum and reopening miles of spawning habitat for fish above the dam, northwest of Cle Elum. The decision is the final step in ...

NEAR ROSLYN, Wash. -- Yakama tribal member Russell Jim pulled the ceremonial plug and in a matter of seconds, locally born sockeye salmon returned to Lake Cle Elum for the first time in a hundred ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, Lake Cle Elum’s sandy shorelines and streams will erupt in crimson patches late this summer as sockeye salmon turn from silver to red in preparation for ...

SALMON LA SAC, Wash. – The Yakama Nation Indian Tribe released sockeye salmon into a lake on the east slope of the Cascades on Tuesday, marking yet another effort by Pacific Northwest tribes to ...