The 13 dams on the Willamette and its tributaries were built for the main purpose of holding back floodwaters in Oregon’s most heavily populated valley, which includes the city of Portland.

Coho salmon are returning in record numbers and spreading into parts of the Upper Willamette Basin they’ve never historically ...

While most anglers from southwest Washington may not fish the Oregon tributary, the Willamette fish are the earliest returning spring Chinook in the Columbia, and they drive the early catches in ...