This spring and fall, Save Our wild Salmon Coalition is hosting a new webinar series: RENEWAL!

The 2026 RENEWAL webinar series invites you to renew and reimagine our commitment to each other, our non-human neighbors, and the special places we all call home.

Join us as we share stories of renewal, positive change, and resilience, and spotlight inspiring work under way to repair and recover the lands, waters, and wildlife in the Columbia Basin, across the Northwest, and beyond. Each 90-minute webinar will be hosted on Zoom with a presentation, a moderated discussion, and a Q&A with attendees.  

SAVE THE DATES: APRIL 30 and MAY 21

Thursday, April 30 at 6pm PT 

A Journey Through The Big River with David Moskowitz — author, wildlife biologist, tracker, and award-winning photographer of Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin. Learn more about the webinar here. 

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Thursday, May 21 at 6pm PT

Guardians of Life: Indigenous Science, Indigenous Wisdom, and Restoring the Planet with Kiliii Yüyan — award-winning photographer, author, and National Geographic explorer. Learn more about the webinar here!

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RENEWAL: A Journey Through The Big River with David Moskowitz

Register today to join the RENEWAL: A Journey Through The Big River with David Moskowitz on April 30 at 6pm PT on Zoom!

Through photographs and stories from his travels across the vast Columbia River watershed, David Moskowitz will take us on a journey exploring what “Renewal” looks like today for fish, wildlife, people, and landscapes. Even as national headlines proclaim doom, the human spirit of ingenuity, compassion, and respectful relations is flourishing in communities throughout the watershed, often inspired by the river herself and the other living creatures whom we share the world with.

From salmon streams restored, cultural practices recovered, agricultural practices remade, and visions for electrical power transformed, change is under way in how we understand and care for a river system which is so vital to the lives of so many. 

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ABOUT DAVID MOSKOWITZ:

David Moskowitz works in the fields of photography, wildlife biology and education. He is the photographer and author of three books: Caribou Rainforest, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest and Wolves in the Land of Salmon and co-author and photographer of Peterson’s Field Guide to North American Bird Nests. He has contributed his technical expertise to a wide variety of wildlife studies regionally and in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky mountains, focusing on using tracking and other non-invasive methods to study wildlife ecology and promote conservation. He helped establish the Cascade Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project, a citizen science effort to search for and monitor rare and sensitive wildlife in the Cascades and other Northwest wildlands.

David is a published author and photographer with Braided River. Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin is a stunning book and visual storytelling campaign exploring the beautiful and complicated Columbia River system and its expansive watershed, from sea to source.

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RENEWAL: Guardians of Life: Indigenous Science, Indigenous Wisdom, and Restoring the Planet with Kiliii Yüyan

Register today to join the Guardians of Life: Indigenous Science, Indigenous Wisdom, and Restoring the Planet webinar with Kiliii Yüyan on May 21 at 6pm PT on Zoom!

Through photography and firsthand storytelling, Kiliii Yüyan will take us on a transformative journey to places and people living in relationship with their ancestral homelands, and illuminating the courage, knowledge, challenges, and stewardship that sustain life on Earth.

In the Guardians of Life book, Kiliii Yüyan captures vivid portraits of Indigenous people, youth and elders, hunters and farmers, spiritual leaders and craftsmen revealing their ways of knowing and taking care of the land. This book upholds the inherent sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples to care for their ancestral lands and waters, and seeks to build a movement that would broadly benefit and sustain life on planet Earth for all.

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ABOUT KILIII YÜYAN:

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, and within the heart of human communities. Of Chinese and Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous) descent, he works through a cross-cultural lens, exploring how humanity—inseparable from the natural world—lives in relationship with land and sea. Kiliii has spent years immersed in the polar regions, documenting Indigenous lifeways, marine ecosystems, and remote landscapes. His fieldwork is shaped by experience in the field: he has faced down a stalking polar bear, dived among sea snakes, and found connection and understanding among people often overlooked at the world’s edges. His photography and storytelling appear in National Geographic, TIME, Vogue, WIRED, and other major publications. He also builds traditional kayaks, maintaining a living link to his northern Indigenous heritage.

In 2023, Kiliii was honored with the Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling, one of National Geographic’s highest recognitions. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year, Leica Oscar-Barnack, PDN, and ASMP, and is held in museum collections across the U.S.

Kiliii is Braided River’s keynote author, with his book project that launched in February of 2026. Guardians Of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring the Planet is an extraordinary visual journey that reveals Indigenous communities as Earth's most powerful protectors. The odyssey spans the globe, from Palau's coral reefs and Mongolia's steppes to the Amazon's rainforests and Greenland's sea ice. This stunning volume is powered by the collective wisdom of more than two dozen Indigenous voices, including activist Quannah Chasinghorse and Palauan statesman Tommy Remengesau Jr. Their expertise is brought forward through National Geographic photojournalist Kiliii Yüyan's striking imagery, the editorial mastery of bestselling author (1491) Charles Mann, and writer Gleb Raygorodetsky's insights.

WEBINAR CO-HOSTED BY

• Wildlife recoveries that change how we think about animals with Christopher Preston
• Dispatches from the salmon forests with Lynda V. Mapes
• Reciprocity in the Age of Extinction with Rena Priest

Artwork: © Annie Brulé, Heritage Species