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.
On August 7, conservation groups across the Northwest will host Rally for the River events to call for a comprehensive solution to salmon recovery that invests in the Northwest and breaches the four lower Snake River dams.
Simpson discussed his Columbia Basin Initiative and offered advice on actions students can take to help save Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead from extinction.
The program to restore Pettit Lake sockeye is complex, uncertain, but ripe with the possibility of success. And, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes merit our confidence as leaders of that program, and as advocates for Congressman Simpson’s initiative.
Youth Salmon Protectors, a “coalition of young people in the Pacific Northwest dedicated to saving wild Columbia River salmon and steelhead,” strongly supports Simpson’s Columbia Basin Initiative.
