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NextGen Salmon Collective Intern Application 2024
NextGen Salmon Collective’s new logo was designed by NWAAE artist Jillian Kelly.If you are interested in applying for an internship with Save Our wild Salmon, please fill in the form below and attach your resume before the priority deadline (May 17th, 2024).
Click here for more information on the internship. If you have any questions, reach out to Abby Dalke, Outreach Coordinator, at abby@wildsalmon.org
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Save Our wild Salmon has no job openings at this time. Thank you for your interest.
About Save Our wild Salmon
SOS is a coalition of northwest and national conservation organizations, recreational and commercial fishing associations, clean energy and orca advocates, businesses, and individuals committed to protecting and restoring abundant, self-sustaining fishable populations of salmon and steelhead to the Columbia-Snake River Basin for the benefit of people and ecosystems.
The Columbia-Snake River Basin was once the most prolific salmon landscape on the planet – experiencing returns of adult wild salmon and steelhead exceeding 16 million fish annually. Today, however, due mainly to the scores of large dams built on the Columbia and Snake Rivers last century, populations have plummeted. Thirteen populations are listed under the Endangered Species Act. All four remaining salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River Basin are at risk of extinction.
Save Our wild Salmon has two primary program goals:
(1) Securing a durable, lawful, science-based federal plan - Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion - that protects and restores Columbia-Snake salmon and steelhead. Science, law and common sense dictate that this plan must include the removal of the four high-cost, low-value dams on the lower Snake River and expanded spill on the dams that remain, among other measures.
(2) Securing a modernized U.S. – Canada Columbia River Treaty that includes a new third purpose of ecosystem-based function or health of the river – co-equal with the two other original Treaty purposes of energy production and flood management. A modernized Treaty must include and prioritize ecological goals and outcomes, engage Columbia Basin Tribes and First Nations as full partners in the planning and implementation of the Treaty moving forward, and ensure river and watershed resilience in the face of an increasingly disrupted climate.
Save Our wild Salmon activities and accomplishments
SOS coordinates legal, policy, communications, and community organizing efforts to inform and engage our constituencies, the public, key stakeholders and elected leaders regionally and nationally. We work closely with the State of Oregon, and with the Nez Perce and other Tribes in the Columbia Basin. Over the course of our 25-year history, our coordinated work has educated and mobilized the public to support policies in the Columbia-Snake watershed that wild salmon and steelhead need in order to recover. As a result of our coalition efforts, we have held federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest accountable for their obligations and responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and other federal laws.
Since 2000, we have won five consecutive court verdicts invalidating the agencies’ inadequate federal Columbia Basin salmon plans, in Spring 2016. Working with lawyers, coalition leaders, elected officials and members of the public, we have delivered important programs and policies that are giving endangered salmon and steelhead a fighting chance. Our efforts have secured the nation’s largest salmon habitat protection and restoration program - on tributaries to the Columbia and Snake Rivers and in the estuary. Since 2006, working with the Nez Perce Tribe and the State of Oregon, we maintained critical levels of court-ordered “salmon spill” – water releases over the tops of dams during the spring and summer – that has delivered more juvenile salmon and steelhead past the federal system of dams to the Pacific Ocean more quickly and safely. In 2017, our alliance fought for and won additional spill for provide further help for imperiled salmon in spring of 2018.
Our work, of course, is far from done.
Learn more about our projects and how you can get involved:
Restoring the lower Snake River
Tackling the Climate Challenge
Protecting Orca by Restoring Salmon
Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty
Contact us for further information.
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Save Our wild Salmon Privacy Policy
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally Identifiable Information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
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How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
- To quickly process your transactions.
- To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
- To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
How do we protect your information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
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All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Do we use 'cookies'?
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We have implemented the following:
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Opting out:
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California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law's reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. - See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
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Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
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How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
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Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
It's also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States' consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Do we let third-parties, including ad networks or plug-ins collect PII from children under 13?
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email within 7 business days
We will notify the users via in-site notification within 7 business days
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
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We collect your email address in order to:
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- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
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Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
Save Our wild Salmon
811 First Avenue #305
Seattle, WA 98104
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joseph@wildsalmon.org
206-300-1003
Last Edited on 2017-10-07
Save Our wild Salmon Coalition
Founded in 1991, Save Our wild Salmon (SOS) is a coalition of northwest and national conservation organizations, commercial and sportsfishing associations, businesses, river groups and clean energy and orca advocates working together to protect and restore self-sustaining, abundant, and harvestable populations of salmon and steelhead to the rivers, streams and marine waters of the Pacific Salmon states for the benefit of people and ecosystems.
We focus our collective efforts on the Columbia and Snake River Basin, where more than 16 million wild salmon and steelhead returned each year. Today, adult returns of wild salmon and steelhead to the Snake River - the Columbia's largest tributary - can be counted in the tens of thousands. Thirteen populations at risk of extinction are listed under the Endangered Species Act - including all four remaining Snake River stocks. Join our campaign to help us restore these critically endangered salmon and steelhead populations by:
- Securing a legally valid, science-based Federal Salmon Plan that restores a resilient and freely flowing lower Snake River and expands "spill" at the federal dams that remain, and
- Modernizing the 50 year-old U.S. - Canada Columbia River Treaty to include ecosystem-based function - the health of the river - as a new essential Treaty purpose in order to better protect the river, its fish and wildlife populations and the communities that rely on them.
With these actions, we can protect and begin to restore the Pacific Northwest's wild salmon and steelhead and the irreplaceable ecological, economic and cultural benefits they provide to residents of the Northwest and nation, and bring an important measure of justice to the region's Tribes - the original stewards of these lands and waters.
Our Partners:
Association of Northwest Steelheaders
Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power and Light
Institute for Fisheries Resources
National Parks Conservation Association
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment
North Cascades Conservation Council
Northwest Guides and Anglers Association
Northwest Resource Information Center
Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
Washington Trollers Association
Washington Wildlife Federation
Coalition documents:
Save Our wild Salmon Coalition Bylaws (Approved September 21, 2023)
Our Team
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Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director
Seattle, Washington
Joseph began working for the Save Our wild Salmon Coalition in 1996. He first got hooked on Northwest salmon restoration efforts while in graduate school where he authored a paper in the early-1990s, exploring the then-relatively recent Snake River salmon listings under the Endangered Species Act, and how it might impact the region and its federal lands and dams. Before joining the SOS team, Joseph spent many years teaching and working in the forests and mountains of the West.
Today, Joseph lives on Vashon Island with his partner Amy and two children Liesl and Jeremiah. He is a former commissioner of Water District 19 (King County) and currently serves as a board member with the NW Energy Coalition and Braided River.
Tanya Riordan, Policy and Advocacy Director
Tanya brings a unique combination of community development, political, and government affairs experience to her work at Save Our wild Salmon. Her work has been dedicated to community sustainability, social justice, environmental advocacy, and corresponding policy efforts across Eastern WA. Some of her experience includes working as Regional Director for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Campaign Manager for Lisa Brown's Congressional Campaign, and with many diverse organizations, including a year in Rwanda with a network of health outreach and micro enterprise organizations, with Planned Parenthood as their Vice President of External Affairs, and as a consultant with nonprofit organizations, political campaigns, large scale community initiatives and coalitions, and small businesses. Tanya appreciates the challenge of skillfully navigating the nuances and complexity of community development efforts- including policy, advocacy, government relation activities, community mobilization, and constituent engagement strategies. She continuously brings a spirit of collaboration, trust, and innovative thinking to the table to solve complex community issues. Tanya has a deep love of learning, travel, and nature. She focuses on integrating that passion into her work by using Biomimicry (nature inspired solutions) as an important framework to creating sustainable solutions to our most pressing organizational AND community issues. When Tanya isn’t “working”, she’s likely hiking, kayaking the Spokane River where she lives, or biking.
Martha is a queer, non-binary person of color and her ancestral roots are in Mexico. Martha was born and currently resides on Kizh/Tongva ancestral lands in California, where she witnessed environmental injustice first-hand, and it fueled her passion to learn about environmental justice and social justice. Martha has a bachelor’s degree in Native American Studies and two minors: Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Planning and Climate Science and Policy from the University of California, Davis. In the fall of 2020, Martha started working at SOS, where she spent time learning about advocacy that strives for community and ecosystem resiliency. Martha is dedicated to working with communities to connect and practice reciprocity with nature, along with advocating for transformative changes to better our world for the present and future generations.
Marc Sullivan, Western Washington Coordinator
Sequim, Washington 
Abby Dalke, Outreach Coordinator
Portland, Oregon
Abby has bounced around the Pacific Northwest her entire life which has instilled in her a deep appreciation and love for the cohabitants of the region.
She recently graduated from Gonzaga University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and had the opportunity to research the effects of anthropogenic stressors on freshwater ecosystems. Studying the effects of climate change and microplastics on amphibians was eye-opening and has propelled Abby to take action to protect the ecosystems that she loves so dearly.
She currently lives in Portland where she enjoys trail running with her pup, fly fishing, and cooking with friends.
Britt Freda, NWAAE Creative Director
Vashon Island, Washington
Britt Freda is an artist and the Creative Director for Northwest Artists Against Extinction (NWAAE), a project of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition. Britt’s paintings focus on endangered species and extinctions, environmental impact, interdependence, and social justice. Her work can be found in museums, galleries, public spaces, and private collections. Britt finds herself most inspired, joyful, and at home when she is outside—whether skiing, backpacking, cycling, fly fishing in alpine streams, or sea kayaking and paddle boarding around the Salish Sea among harbor seals, otters, orcas, osprey, and eagles. Britt grew up exploring the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, ancestral lands of the Kapuuta Nuuchi Ute Tribes, and in Northern New Mexico, surrounded by the prominent culture of the Tiwa Pueblo people who have continuously inhabited the mountains around sacred Blue Lake since approximately 1000 AD. Britt and her family currently live on the ancestral lands of the sx̌ʷəbabš or Swift Water Coast Salish People (Vashon Island).
LeeAnne Beres, Operations Manager
Seattle, Washington
LeeAnne brings over 30 years of nonprofit expertise back to SOS, having previously served as the coalition’s Washington Organizer and Associate Director. As Operations Manager, she is responsible for strengthening organizational governance, people & culture (HR), and administrative systems to increase SOS' operational capacity, as well as planning events and assisting the Executive Director with executive and financial tasks. LeeAnne’s previous experience includes serving as Deputy Director of Nonprofit Association of Washington, Executive Director of Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power & Light, and surviving two years working as a biologist on commercial fishing boats in Alaska’s Bering Sea. LeeAnne has a Master’s degree in Marine Fisheries Management from the University of Washington and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Whitman College. Outside of work, she is a passionate hockey fan and walks several miles daily with her dog, Bones.
Graeme Lee Rowlands, Columbia River Treaty Project Coordinator
The Columbia Basin
Graeme Lee Rowlands studied at Quest University Canada in Squamish, British Columbia where he completed an interdisciplinary degree in Water Resource Sciences with a special focus on the Columbia River Basin and the Columbia River Treaty. His work has since been published in more than 50 journalistic and academic outlets including the Seattle Times, Maclean’s Magazine, and the official journal of the International Water Resources Association. Graeme has also traveled extensively throughout the watershed to learn directly from people and places. Most notably, in 2017 he followed the entire length of the Columbia from sea-to-source by bicycle and kayak while reading key texts and engaging with local residents and experts.
Graeme has served as an organizer, speaker, moderator, and/or advisor for the sixth, seventh, eight, and ninth annual international ‘One River, Ethics Matter’ conferences and facilitates the Columbia River Roundtable. Alongside Dr. John Osborn, Graeme co-leads the Sierra Club's volunteer Columbia River Team. He is dedicated to education and youth empowerment.
Maanit Goel, Youth Organizer
Sammamish, Washington
Maanit is a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Washington. Since 2019, Maanit has coordinated various local, national, and global environmental initiatives, and in late 2021, he directed his focus locally toward one of the Pacific Northwest's most pressing conservation crises: the stark decline of the Southern Resident orcas, driven largely as a result of Chinook salmon decline on the Snake River and across the region. Since first getting involved, Maanit has facilitated educational outreach and youth mobilization across six Seattle-area K-12 schools, drawn in activists from four cities, coordinated collaboration across two states, and directly reached an audience of 1,300+ students - and counting.
Maanit currently serves on the EarthEcho International Youth Leadership Council, Washington Legislative Youth Advisory Council, and is returning Chair of the Sammamish City Council's Youth Board. He joined the SOS team in Sept. 2022.
