We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save wild salmon.
The Pacific Northwest was once home to one of the greatest salmon runs in the world: The Columbia / Snake river system. But all remaining Snake River salmon are facing extinction because four aging dams in Washington stand in their way to reaching their pristine, natal cold water streams in central Idaho and beyond. (Read why in The Long and Winding Swim.)
Now, the operation of those four dams—Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, Lower Granite—is under reconsideration. Scientists say taking out the dams is the single best thing we can do to save the salmon.
Free the Snake, save the salmon, remove the dams.
The Pacific Northwest was once home to one of the greatest salmon runs in the world: The Columbia / Snake river system.
But all remaining Snake River salmon are facing extinction because four aging dams in Washington stand in their way to reaching their pristine, natal cold water streams in central Idaho and beyond. (Read why in The Long and Winding Swim.)
Now, the operation of those four dams—Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, Lower Granite—is under reconsideration.
Scientists say taking out the dams is the single best thing we can do to save the salmon. Free the Snake, save the salmon, remove the dams.
Save Wild SalmonAmerica is about to lose an icon. Tell the government to tear down four deadly dams and save wild salmon >> http://earthjustice.org/salmon
Posted by Earthjustice on Tuesday, November 29, 2016
In September, hundreds of people gathered in kayaks and along the Lower Snake River to call for the restoration of wild salmon by removing the four dams.
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