At the heart of the park is Lake Easton (a reservoir) which is fed by the Yakima River that flows into the west end of the ...

Environment Local News Fish-ladder OK’d at Lake Cle Elum Originally published August 30, 2011 at 9:13 pm Updated August 30, 2011 at 11:31 pm ...

YAKIMA — A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment. The proposal is contained in a draft ...

A total of 10,000 wild sockeye were released in the lake this year. Ultimately, the hope is for a self-sustaining run of Yakima River sockeye that will allow for a sport fishery.

Northbank Civil & Marine Inc., a small business based in Vancouver, won the contract. If the tunnel is successful, construction of a fishery on Lake Cle Elum could be next, Visser said.

Fish biologists Joel Hubble, left, and Pat Monk watch as water from Lake Cle Elum rushes down a flume below the dam March 16, 2015. The water was let from the lake to allow sockeye salmon to begin ...

Sport anglers could catch more non-native trout in Lake Cle Elum and give sockeye a leg up in the process under a proposed change to fishery regulations. The proposal by the state Department of ...

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.