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Storm flips hanger, sparks fire

OKANOGAN — A late-night storm caused several power outages throughout the county on Thursday, June 8, as well as a small wildfire at Okanogan Legion Airport. ....

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Conservationists urge removal of derelict U.S. dam barring salmon from B.C. river

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A century ago, the Similkameen River was dammed, and the salmon that ran the cold, clear water of the upper river suffered a similar fate.
Now, 101 years after its construction and 60 years since it ceased generating power, a movement to remove the Enloe Dam from the place where it interrupts the river, about six kilometres northwest of Oroville in Washington state, is gathering support.
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On Wednesday, B.C. conservationists applauded provincial Environment Minister George Heyman for penning a letter to Washington’s director of ecology, Laura Watson, to express B.C.’s support for decommissioning the derelict dam, in which he noted removing the obstacle has the “potential to provide vital fish passage and new habitat for our declining salmon and steelhead populat ....

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