Save Our Wild Salmon
is a nationwide coalition of conservation organizations, commercial and sportsfishing associations, businesses, river groups, and taxpayer advocates working collectively to restore self-sustaining, abundant, and harvestable populations of wild salmon and steelhead to rivers, streams and oceans of the Pacific Salmon states.
Alaska Trollers Association
American Rivers
American Whitewater
Association of Northwest
Steelheaders
Columbia Riverkeeper
Defenders of Wildlife
Earthjustice
Federation of Fly Fishers
Friends of the Earth
Idaho Rivers United
Idaho Steelhead and Salmon
Unlimited
Lands Council
The Mountaineers
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Resources Defense
Council
Northwest Sportfishing
Industry Association
NW Energy Coalition
Oregon Guides and Packers
Oregon Natural Desert
Association
Oregon Wild
Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen's Associations
Salmon For All
Sierra Club
SPAWN
Taxpayers For Common
Sense
Trout Unlimited
Washington Trollers
Association
Washington Wilderness
Coalition
Washington Wildlife
Federation
Wild Steelhead Coalition
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June 21, 2009
Has the salmon debate changed?
by Rocky Barker
TROUTDALE, Ore. — Jack Glass slips the net under a 25-pound spring chinook salmon just inside the "dead line" that separates the Sandy River from the Columbia.
This invisible line, marked with a sign on the shore, designates where fishing for salmon is legal this time of the year. Oregon Fish and Wildlife authorities closed the season early for salmon on the Columbia because the returns have not been as high as expected. Read more of "Has the salmon debate changed?"
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Chris Wood: Obama should look to Risch and Crapo's position on salmon, roadless areas
Reader's View: Salmon Recovery
by Chris Wood
Two issues, the recovery of Pacific salmon and steelhead and the management of 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas, may predict the Obama administration's approach to land and water conservation in the western United States. Ironically, the Democratic administration would do well to look to Idaho - the reddest of the red states - for counsel. Read More of Chris Wood's op-ed.
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 June 11, 2009
PNW Inlander: Into the Breach
Unlikely voices call for a more inclusive approach to resolving the Snake River’s dam vs. salmon conundrum
Idaho’s Republican Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have emerged as unlikely progressive voices calling for a broad collaboration to preserve endangered runs of salmon that must pass four dams on the lower Snake River. Even if it means talking about breaching the dams.
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June 5, 2009
LEWISTON TRIBUNE: Mike Crapo steps outside Larry Craig's shadow
by Marty Trillhaase, editorial writer
Anyone who felt U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo abandoned this region last week should consider what the Idaho Republican said about dams and fish.
Then think about why Crapo said it.
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June 05, 2009
OREGONIAN: The false choice on endangered salmon
by Liz Hamilton, guest opinion
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May 26th, 2009
Commercial and Sport Fisherman post ad in Oregonian calling for Obama’s leadership on Columbia & Snake River salmon and steelhead recovery.
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 Salmon Rally in Portland - May 26, 2009
Scores of salmon and fishing advocates, many with their boats in tow, gathered outside of the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon, where Obama Administration officials met to determine the fate of the Bush-era salmon plan for the Columbia & Snake Rivers.
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The Last Stand of the American Salmon
by G. Bruce Knecht
The government has spent billions trying to save Pacific Northwest Wild Salmon, yet this year the iconic fish hurtles even closer toward extinction. No one seems willing to take the one step that is guaranteed to work — breach the bloody dams.
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 June is Orca Awareness Month!
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March 28th, 2009
The Caddis Fly - Oregon Fly Fishing Blog:
Obama Administration Comes to Portland, Talks Salmon
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