Fact Sheets

• August 28, 2006: EXTINCTION STOPS HERE.  Poster
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• February 27, 2006: Dams “Catch” More Salmon Than Fishermen: .  As the table shows, the federal dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers are responsible for killing far more juvenile and adult salmon listed under the Endangered Species Act than is the incidental harvest of listed stocks in fisheries aimed at healthier stocks. This is the case whether the fish are harvested at sea or in the rivers or their tributaries. The dams kill as many as 92% of salmon headed out to sea, and up to another 25% on their way back upstream to spawn.
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• April 22, 2005: Ratepayer Impacts of Salmon Protections for 2005. Protections requested by businesses, fishing associations and conservationists have asked for salmon protections during the drought year that will cost Northwest ratepayers between a dime and fifty cents per month.
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• April 11, 2005: Recent Salmon Returns: A missed opportunity for real salmon recovery. News about "record" salmon and steelhead returns to Pacific Northwest rivers and streams has become commonplace in Oregon, Washington and Idaho over the past three years. The reality is different. For most of the last two and a half decades the last of the Northwest's once-prolific salmon populations have been flirting with extinction. Recent salmon returns have been a godsend for the struggling northwest economy, providing a much-needed economic influx from increased recreational and commercial salmon fishing and reminding the Pacific Northwest that salmon mean business. Still Northwest salmon continue to be in trouble. Most wild salmon runs in the Columbia Basin are still under three percent of historic numbers and are not yet on the road to recovery.
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• October 28, 2004: 2004 Federal Salmon Plan Report Card - Four Year Summary. Once the most prolific salmon and steelhead populations in the world, salmon and steelhead in the Snake and Columbia rivers are now teetering toward extinction. All remaining species of Snake River salmon and steelhead, for example, are listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Snake River coho are already extinct. The major cause of decline for Snake River salmon is the existence and operation of four federal dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State.
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• February 4, 2004: A Timeline of Failure - The Bush Administration's NW Salmon Policy. Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead are a national treasure and vital to the Northwest’s economic, cultural, and environmental well-being. President Bush recognized this, stating in August 2003 that “a flourishing salmon population is a vital part of the vibrancy in this incredibly beautiful part of our country.” And yet, the Administration’s policies over the last three years indicate a direction that vastly diverges from restoring this national treasure. At the same time, more adult salmon have returned to Northwest rivers than the region has seen since before the 1990s. This is exciting news. Larger salmon returns have brought hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs into the struggling Northwest economy.
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• November 15, 2003: Lower Snake River Dam Removal - Idaho Editorial Support.  Recent Idaho Editorials Advocate the Benefits of Dam Removal
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• November 1, 2003: New York Times Editorial Reaffirms Support for Removing Lower Snake River Dams, Protecting Wild Salmon.  In the wake of an historic agreement to protect Atlantic salmon in Maine’s Penobscot River by removing two dams and decommissioning a third, citizens across the nation are recognizing the importance of recovering populations of endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead. Nowhere is this more vital than in the Northwest’s heralded Snake River, where once-prolific salmon runs – renowned for their cultural and economic value – are near extinction due primarily to four federal dams.
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• October 15, 2003: New Bush Administration Proposal Puts Salmon in Hot Water.  Oregon Rule Foreshadows Nation-wide Rollback of Clean Water Act
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• September 1, 2003: Salmon In Hot Water .  Lower Snake River Water Temperatures (July - August 2003)
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• August 22, 2003: Salmon and the Bush Administration.  President George W. Bush may talk about how salmon are important, but his administration’s actions constantly put salmon and salmon communities last.
  Download:     Bush_admin_salmon_record.8.2003
  
  
• August 1, 2003: Summary of Judge James Redden's Ruling that the federal Salmon Plan is .  
  Download:     BiOp.Litigation.Summary.8.2003
  
  
• March 17, 2003: Columbia & Snake River Sentinel.  Monitoring the Restoration of wild salmon, steelhead, and rivers in the Columbia Basin.
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• February 26, 2003: 2002 Salmon Plan Report Card: Facts and Conclusions.  A Facts and Conclusions page on the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition Report Card on the federal government's implementation and progress on the Federal Salmon Plan.
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• February 26, 2003: 2002 Salmon Plan Report Card Questions and Answers.  A Questions & Answers factsheet on the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition's 2002 Report Card on the federal government's implementation and progress on the Federal Salmon Plan.
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• February 26, 2003: 2002 Salmon Plan Report Card, summary version.  The Report Card documents how the federal government has failed to implement its own salmon recovery plan.
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• February 20, 2003: The Columbia - Snake Sentinel.  Monitoring the Restoration of Wild Salmon and Steelhead in the Columbia-Snake Basin
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• September 19, 2002: The Columbia-Snake Sentinel.  Monitoring the Restoration of Wild Salmon, Steelhead & Rivers in the Columbia-Snake Basin
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• September 4, 2002: Questions & Answers about RAND's Northwest Energy Report.  Wht does RAND's new northwest energy report cover?
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• September 4, 2002: RAND Facts and Conclusions.  Economic & Employment Implications of Lower Snake River Dam Removal
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• September 4, 2002: RAND Overview: Wild Salmon and Clean Energy.  A Vision of the Future for the Pacific Northwest. An analysis of a new report by RAND
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• July 1, 2002: Columbia-Snake Sentinel.  Monitoring the restoration of wild salmon, steelhead and rivers in the Columbia-Snake basin
  Download:     CSS.7-02.pdf