For about 24 hours, Daily Evergreen reporters and editors alike joined dozens of other WSU students in this year’s Rural Reporting Plunge from Sept. 29–30. The Plunge is an annual trip wherein teams of WSU students visit rural towns in Washington and Idaho, some driving as far as three hours away from WSU Pullman to.
Dozens of people gathered along the banks of a reservoir of the Snake River Saturday at Hells Gate State Park in Lewiston, Idaho, to call upon the U.S. government to remove the lower Snake River dam in order to aid the salmon population. The dam prevents salmon from completing their migration to the Pacific Ocean..