For those who care about salmon, orca, and Tribal justice, now is the time to advocate. For leaders who claim to care about these things, now is the time for action. Together, we can make 2022 a year for salmon, and for so much more.
Dredge miners who choose to mine in Idaho without proper permits face increasing monetary penalties for flouting regulations. Recently, a Washington dredge miner paid a record-setting $24,000 fine for nine …
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion measure characterized as the largest long-term investment in infrastructure in a century.
Recently, a pair of announcements from the Biden Administration and two Washington elected leaders renewed momentum around restoring the lower Snake River.
Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) released a joint statement formally announcing a “federal-state process on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin and the Pacific Northwest.”
The Idaho Conservation League joined other plaintiffs, the Nez Perce Tribe, the State of Oregon, and federal defendants to file a request for a stay in the long-running litigation associated with the continued operation of Snake and Columbia River dams and their effect on threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead.
On October 14, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced that he and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) are actively working on a “Salmon Action Plan” process to save Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead from extinction.
Pat Ford, ICL’s former executive director, says Mike Simpson, a Republican from eastern Idaho, is the first Northwest member of Congress to take on the “beast” of dams and salmon in 41 years.
