Show Your Support for a Free-Flowing Lower Snake River

The four dams on the lower Snake River are decimating endangered salmon and steelhead populations throughout the Northwest. This year, we saw one of the worst spring Chinook returns the Columbia River has experienced in recent history, a trend that has become all to familiar over the past 30 years since salmon populations were first listed as endangered.  

While the lower Snake River dams provide a small amount of "renewable energy" and sustain a barge industry to ship grain to market, the dramatic environmental impacts to our salmon, and the communities that rely on them, far outweigh the benefits. We can collaborate on alternative energy and transportation systems, but we cannot bring salmon back once they are gone. 

In 2020, the federal agencies that manage the Columbia River hydrosystem confirmed in their Environmental Impact Statement that breaching the four lower Snake River dams is the only option to meaningfully recover endangered salmon and steelhead from the looming risk of extinction. Instead of moving forward with breach, the federal agencies decided to make small changes to the current management structure -- violating the Endangered Species Act in the process.

We need our Pacific Northwest legislators to take leadership on this issue. We need bold actions if we are going to save salmon from looming extinction. We must break out of the cycle of faulty agency planning followed by years of litigation. We need a Congressional action.

Sign our petition. Show your representatives how important it is to protect and support the endangered species we love, our regional identity, and our recreational angling community.