Restoring sockeye to Lake Cle Elum is made possible by a crude fish passage system at the spillway to the 437,000-acre-foot lake. A flume allows smolts to escape to the downstream Cle Elum River.

The Cle Elum River is crucial for sockeye salmon, which was reintroduced to the watershed by the Yakama Nation, Vince McGowan, a water quality program manager for the agency, in the news release.

Restoring sockeye to Lake Cle Elum is made possible by a crude fish passage system at the spillway to the 437,000-acre-foot lake. A flume allows smolts to escape to the downstream Cle Elum River.

Now I am a Yakama Nation Tribal Council member and, in these last weeks, I have witnessed the return of the sockeye to Cle Elum Lake and Cle Elum River.

local I-90 near Cle Elum open after wildfire closure The Lower Cle Elum River Fire was sparked by a truck that caught fire and quickly spread to 8 acres.

CLE ELUM, Wash. - Five people were rescued this weekend after their boat got stuck on rocks in the Cle Elum River, the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office said Monday. The incident took place shortly ...

CLE ELUM — Desperate neighbors tried to cut fire lines with hand tools to help protect property threatened by a fast-moving wildfire that destroyed at least 70 homes and burned across more than ...

A 10-year-old girl who was missing near the Cle Elum River for nearly 30 hours was found alive Monday afternoon. “It’s a very surprising result,” a Kittitas County Sheriff’s spokesperson ...

CLE ELUM, Wash. - More than a century after their runs up the Cle Elum River were wiped out by dams, sockeye salmon are spawning again.