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A Moment to Celebrate – Witnessing Salmon Return to the Klamath River

Thirteen years after the first salmon returned to a free-flowing Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Coast, the first Chinook salmon swam upstream to reaches of the Klamath River that had …

Replacing Dams, Building a Stronger Future: Recreation Edition

Summary Fill out Washington’s Lower Snake River recreation survey and tell the government how YOU would recreate on a free-flowing lower Snake River. Even if you don’t recreate on the lower …

Federal Report Shows (Again) that LSRD Breaching is Necessary

A draft report released by the federal Fish Passage Center (FPC) reiterates what has been clear for years: salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River are in deep trouble …

Replacing Dams, Building a Stronger Future: Transportation Edition

Federal and state agencies, Tribal governments, and stakeholders are working together to plan how to replace the services of the four lower Snake River dams. These planning efforts came about …

Saving Salmon, Protecting a Way of Life

We often say that, without the work of Tribes, Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead would be gone. It’s easy to dismiss this as hyperbole, but in this case, it’s not …

A Tale of Two Rivers: the 2024 Sockeye Run

Casual news readers this summer were greeted with cheerful headlines referring to a “record sockeye run” in the Columbia River. According to dam operators, more than 750,000 sockeye salmon (Onchorhynchus …

ICL in DC: Advocating for Northwest Salmon with the Columbia Snake River Campaign

This September, ICL staff flew to our nation’s capitol with a group of advocates from the newly restructured Columbia Snake River Campaign to show unity in our push for a …

From Summer to School, It’s Always the Busy Season for Youth Salmon Protectors!

Over the past few months, Youth Salmon Protectors (YSP) have continued our tireless advocacy for the removal of the lower Snake River dams to save salmon and steelhead from extinction. …

Deeper Dive: Tribal Circumstances Analysis and Other Research Shows Immense, Intentional Effects of Federal Hydroelectric Dams on Northwest Tribal Nations

Recent research by the U.S. Department of the Interior showed that the construction and continued operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) – the set of 31 federal …

Congress undermines the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement

The US House of Representatives is threatening to sabotage years of progress and months of negotiations that culminated in the groundbreaking Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement last year. The Agreement, forged …

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