NextGen Salmon Collective, a new student-oriented program of SOS, is a space for young advocates to harness their advocacy through education, skills, and community with the goal of restoring healthy and abundant salmon in the Columbia-Snake River Basin. Our mission is to foster meaningful connections, provide educational resources, facilitate mentorship, and offer logistical support for youth-led initiatives. By empowering the next generation of environmental leaders, we aim to expand and fortify the network of youth advocates across the Northwest and amplify their voices. The next generation of environmental stewards is among us, and we hope they choose to safeguard the future of Columbia River Basin salmon and all the species that depend on them.

If you have any questions, reach out to Abby Dalke, Outreach Coordinator, at abby@wildsalmon.org.

Abby Pearce
Tacoma, WA

Abby is a senior at University of Puget Sound studying biology and environmental policy. She has spent several years advocating for endangered species and pushing for conservation efforts for marine life. Volunteering with local non-profit organizations and rallying for climate action has been her most recent hobby all while building a connection with local communities and the outdoors. Abby grew up in the PNW which has fueled her passion for wildlife. Working to educate and raise awareness about salmon restoration is important to Abby in hopes that it will drive others to take action. 

Ani Hopp
Portland, OR

Ani Hopp is a junior at Ida B. Wells High School. She loves to take hikes, and go sailing around the Puget Sound area. She knows that the ecosystem around her is very dependent on salmon, and would like to preserve that ecosystem for others to enjoy in the future. Ani hopes to one day see a world where salmon runs and those who depend on them are thriving, and a future in which we can coexist with nature.

 

 

 

Bo Warner 
Bellingham, WA

Bo Emerson Warner is a student at Western Washington University. Ever since he can remember, fish have fascinated him. Salmon, in particular, have one of the most interesting and unique life cycles/histories. Learning about their rapid decline from the industrialization of our rivers, and how vital these creatures are to the communities of the PNW drew him to activism.

 

 

 

Emily Hajek 
Spokane, WA

Emily is a senior at Gonzaga University as a sociology major and a double minor in health equity and social justice. She also used to be a pre-med student but is now switching to nursing. She has always had a love for the creatures inhabiting the Pacific Northwest, especially the orcas. Throughout her college career, she has sought out various opportunities to help them. Salmon restoration is one of the key factors in helping not only the orcas, but other endangered species too. She wants to continue to learn and dedicate my time to advocating for people and our planet!

 

 

 

Eva Hauksdottir-Neill 
Walla Walla, WA

Eva Hauksdottir-Neill is a senior at Whitman College studying Environmental Studies and Art. She is really passionate about animals and environmental protection/conservation, and what drew her to this program is its emphasis on environmental protection, connecting people together from differing educational backgrounds to work as a team. 

 

 

 

George Slaats
Tacoma, WA

George is a student at the University of Puget Sound studying Natural Science Biology and Environmental Policy and Decision Making. Having spent time leading canoe trips in Minnesota, he has gained an appreciation for the importance of clean water and healthy ecosystems. He has learned about the importance of salmon for the people and environment of the Pacific Northwest, and is excited to help advocate on their behalf! 

 

 

 

Isabella Williams
Richland, Washington

Isabella is a senior at WSU studying Earth and Environmental science with a minor in Forestry. Advocating for healthy and abundant salmon populations is important to Isabella because her family loves to fish on the Snake and Columbia River. Understanding that farmland, forests, and this whole PNW area thrives on maintaining the rich sediment and salmon greatly impacts that nutrient level. Her vision for the PNW is to increase clean energy resources, have less pollution runoff, and create a place that's healthy and safe for humans and other organisms to thrive in.

 

 

 

Jess Ludwig 
Eugene, OR 

Jess is currently a student at the University of Oregon studying Environmental Science, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Outdoor Recreation. Growing up along the shores of Lake Superior, she developed a deep connection to nature, which inspired her to become deeply involved in environmental activism. In Oregon, Jess has spent the last couple years organizing to save our old growth forests from unethical logging practices. Collaborating with the student organization Climate Justice League and interning with local non-profits like Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild, she gained a deeper understanding of the importance of salmon to healthy-ecosystems. Jess hopes to continue her work advocating for ecological preservation, not only focusing on safeguarding old growth forests but also climate justice. Her passion for protecting wild salmon comes from a desire to see a future where these iconic species thrive alongside resilient ecosystems and communities. 

Keyen Singer
Nixyaawii, Mission, OR

Níix̣ łk̓ʷí! Inmí waníkt tanantímki iwá Wáašaša qmɨmsalí ptínit ku šuyaputɨ́mt Keyen Singer. Nixyáawiikni ku Ímatallam Tímani Tičámkni našwá. Wínaxaaš Nčí Ititamatpamá waníči University of Oregon. (Sahaptin Umatilla)

Good day! My Umatilla (Indian) name is Dancing Hummingbird Girl and English name is Keyen Singer. I’m from Nixyaawii, Mission, OR, and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. I attend the University of Oregon. (English)

Letkwu Moore Stanger

Letkwu is a former Native Youth Grantmaker, NRCS intern, and Native Environmental Science student at Northwest Indian College. Letkwu is passionate about environmental stewardship, Indigenous leadership. Letkwu is eager to gain skills in conservation, grantmaking, and traditional ecological knowledge and grow and contribute to sustainable solutions for communities and the land. 

 

Marin Plut (she/her)
Seattle, WA

Marin is studying Environmental Analysis (Food Systems) at Scripps College. One of the things that brought Marin into this work was the Elwha River dam removal project. Lessons about the Elwha were important keystones in her middle school and high school education. Among other things, it taught her how resilient salmon are. In a time where everything feels impossible and there’s a lot of fear around looking into what lies ahead, salmon lead the way for us. No matter what the problem is, no matter what the future looks like, we have to keep swimming. Just like the salmon, we might never see the world we’re building, but our efforts today will allow future generations, one day, to make it to a world everyone thrives in. She hopes for a future where everyone has access to connect with our beautiful ecosystems and feel rooted in the landscapes. Where salmon and orca are abundant, demonstrating how interconnected our lives are from the coast to the inland mountains. The best chance we have to bring us into these sustainable and just relations with the earth is to follow the lead of the tribes, who have been stewards and caretakers of these lands for time immemorial.

Owen Begley-Collier
Seattle, WA

Owen Begley-Collier is a student at WWU advocating for Snake River dam breaching. For Owen, a lifelong love for orcas has been a gateway into environmental activism. For the past four years Owen has advocated for a free flowing Snake River with WYORCA, Snake River Savers, Students for Climate Action Bellingham and now, Save Our Wild Salmon.

Owen has been involved with the organization of banner deployments, letter writing events, film screenings, talks with political staffers and rallies.

Reggie Westgate
Tacoma, WA

Reggie is a sophomore at the University of Puget Sound. He is studying Biology and Environmental Policy and Decision Making with an emphasis in Ecosystem Ecology. He grew up in Minnesota surrounded by lakes and intrigued by freshwater ecosystems. He learned that the lakes and their water sustain all life. Throughout his childhood, various threats arose to those life giving water. Reggie stood with Stop Line 3 and Save the Boundary Waters to protect that water. While not in Minnesota, he still understands the importance of protecting and sustaining the entities that give life. That is why he advocates for the Salmon.

Ryan Marrone (He/Him) 
Tacoma, WA

Ryan is currently in his senior year at the University of Puget Sound, studying Natural Science Biology and Environmental Policy/Decision Making. One of the things that brought Ryan to NextGen Salmon Collective was his passion for protecting the federally endangered Southern resident killer whales. Ryan is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he developed a love for the various lentic (freshwater) ecosystems and habitats that make up the 10,000+ lakes as well as major rivers in Minnesota. That love for aquatic life grew when he saw orcas for the first while in Washington, which promoted his passion and drive to protect these animals even further. Over his four years in school, he has done countless different projects that have followed the different life stages of salmon, some projects include: Macroinvertebrate abundance/diversity effect on stream health, restoration plan and promotion along the Duwamish River, Geographic Information System (GIS) in the Columbia River Basin and the effects of urbanization and dams on salmon abundance, as well as riparian restoration through engineered log jams. He hopes to continue advocating for salmon and orcas and is excited to plan community events to promote the Lower Snake River dam removal as well as salmon restoration. 

Taigen Soethe
Edmunds, WA

Learning about whales and dolphins at a young age inspired Taigen to study marine biology in college. The plight of our local Southern Resident killer whales led her to learn about salmon recovery efforts. Working with the NextGen Collective has made her passionate about salmon recovery in its own right. She envisions a future in which we are able to balance energy and economic needs with healthy and abundant salmon and steelhead populations in the Pacific Northwest. 

Virginia Owens
Spokane, WA

Virginia is a Seattleite, who is currently pursuing a double major undergraduate degree in Sociology and Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest has instilled a deep appreciation of the environment around her as well as a love for the animals and all organisms that share the space with us. She enjoys being active and outside between hiking, tide pooling, and swimming.

Virginia is excited to be a part of the program and is interested in pursuing a path in sustainability (potentially within the aquaculture sphere). She feels very passionately about protecting and saving the environment while ensuring that environmental justice is upheld for everyone.

This page contains a series of documents that provide additional detailed information on a range of topics concerning wild salmon and steelhead population status and restoration activities, Southern Resident Orcas, Columbia and Snake river conditions and management regimes and options, dam removal, commercial transportation, energy replacement, and more from the following years: 1996 - 2019.

Additional information and resources can be found under each SOS Project in the form of media stories, guest opinions, news releases, reports, etc. If you have questions about these documents or topics, or others that aren’t listed below, please contact Joseph Bogaard at joseph@wildsalmon.org // 206-300-1003

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

1. SCIENCE


2. ECONOMICS OF DAMS, DAM REMOVAL, ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS, AND MORE


3. ENERGY REPLACEMENT OF THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER DAMS


4. CONGRESS, TRIBES, AGENCIES, GOVERNORS, AND OTHER SOVEREIGNS & POLICYMAKERS


5. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT REVIEW 


(1) SCIENCE:

— A. Salmon Science incl. lower Snake River dam removal, spill, barging, etc:

• Fish Passage Center’s analysis of the federal agencies’ CRSO Draft EIS Alternatives including high spill and dam breaching (March 2020)  PDF
• Scientists' White Letter: Southern Resident Killer Whales & Columbia/Snake River Chinook: A Review of the Available Scientific Evidence (Feb. 2020)  PDF
• Letter from fifty-five scientists to Northwest policymakers documents how federal dams and climate impacts are increasing water temperatures in the lower Snake River and harming salmon survival and recovery (Oct. 2019)  PDF
• NGO Letter to Ecology signed by 19 organizations regard rulemaking to change water quality standards to allow for increased spill (Sept. 2019) PDF
• Salmon Scientists' Letter to Governor Inslee's Southern Resident Orca Recovery Task Force (Oct. 2018)  PDF
• Graph: Comparison of Smolt-to-Adult Rations (SARs) upriver and downriver of lower Snake River dams (2018)  PDF
• Graphs: Snake River wild salmon and steelhead returns from 1954 - 2019 (2019)  PDF
• Scientists' Letter to Congress re: the benefits of expanded spill on the survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Columbia-Snake River Basin (2017) PDF
• Snake River Salmon and Steelhead Returns: 2015 - 2017 (Oct. 2017)  PDF
• Comparative Survival Study of Pit-tagged of Spring/Summer/Fall Chinook, Summer Steelhead and Sockeye (CSS Oversight Committee and Fish Passage Center, 2017) PDF
• Wild Pacific Salmon: An Threatened Legacy (Williams, Lichatowich et al, 2017) PDF
• Why spill? Because the situation is dire - Ten slides on outlining spill science and benefits (2017)  PDF
• Map: Smolt-to-Adult Ratio (SAR) for the Columbia-Snake River Basin (2017) PDF
• Idaho Conservation Organizations Letter to NOAA-Fisheries re: artificial fish transportation (barging) and harmful effects on sockeye survival and recovery (2017)  PDF
• Factsheet: The Salmon Community’s View: The status of wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia and Snake River Basin (2016)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Data Request Regarding Drawing Down Lower Granite Reservoir to Better Meet Water Quality Standards for Temperature (2016)  PDF
• Spill and Total Dissolved Gas (TDG) science presented in two summary slides (2016)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Preliminary 2015 juvenile survival estimates and environmental conditions (2016)  PDF
• SOS Report: Learning from the Fish – The biological effects of BPA management, including its wind power curtailments, on ocean-bound Columbia and Snake River salmon in 2011 (2011)  PDF
• Resolution of the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society on the Role of Dams and Conservation of Snake River Salmon, Steelhead, Pacific Lamprey, and White Sturgeon (2011)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Benefits of spill for juvenile fish passage at hydroelectric projects (2011)  PDF
• Factsheet: Dams catch more salmon than fishermen (2007)  PDF
• Graph: Columbia Basin Salmon Harvest 1866 - 2011 (2013)  JPG

— B. Southern Resident Orca:

• Orca Scientists' Letter to Southern Resident Orca Recovery Task Force re: spring chinook, spill and lower Snake River dam removal (Oct. 2018)  PDF
• Puget Sound Partnership Resolution 2017-01: Accelerating and amplifying chinook salmon recovery for Southern Resident Killer Whales (Nov. 2017)  PDF
• PLOS 1: Population growth is limited by nutritional impacts on pregnancy success in endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Wasser et al, 2017)  PDF
• Factsheet: Why Southern Resident Orcas are Malnourished (2016)  PDF
• Orca Scientist Letter re: Breaching Snake River Dams to Support Orca Recovery (2016)  PDF
• Orca Scientists Letter to Senator Patty Murray re: Recovering Federally Endangered Killer Whales by Breaching the Four Lower Snake River Dams  (2015)  PDF
• Orca Salmon Alliance Factsheet: Save the Salmon, Save the Whales (2015)  PDF
• Businesses and Scientists Sign-on Letter to Governor Inslee re: Southern Resident Killer Whales (2014)  PDF
• Assessing the coastal occurrence of endangered killer whales using autonomous passive acoustic recorders (J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2013)  PDF
• Species and stock identification of scale/tissue samples from southern resident killer whale predation events collected off the Washington coast during PODs 2009 cruise on the McArthur II (Hanson et al, unpublished, 2010)  PDF
• Orca Scientists Letter to NOAA Regional Administrator Bob Lohn re: Recovering Federally Endangered Killer Whales by Breaching the Four Lower Snake River Dams (2007)  PDF

— C. Climate Change

• EPA Powerpoint Presentation: Temperature Model of the Snake River (2017)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: The effect of warm water on upstream steelhead passage (2016) PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Requested data summaries regarding summer Chinook adult fish passage and water temperature in the Columbia and Snake River (2016)  PDF
• NOAA Report: Impacts of Climate Change on Salmon of the Pacific Northwest (Crozier, 2016)  PDF
• Scientists Letter to NOAA-Fisheries re: Climate Change and Columbia Basin salmon (2015)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Requested data summaries and actions regarding sockeye adult fish passage and water temperature issues in the Columbia and Snake rivers.  (2015)  PDF
• Letter to Northwest Power and Conservation Council re: expanded spill and greenhouse gas emissions (SOS and NW Energy Coalition, 2014)  PDF
• Fish Passage Center Memo: Response to request – Review BPA SMART Spill PowerPoint Presentation (2013)  PDF
• A Great Wave Rising: Solutions for Columbia and Snake Salmon in the Age of Climate Change (Martin and Glick, 2013) PDF
• Bright Future: How to keep the Northwest’s lights on, jobs growing, goods moving and salmon swimming in the era of climate change (NWEC, 2009)  PDF
• Bright Future Excerpts – page 1, 4 (NWEC, 2009)  PDF

(2) ECONOMICS OF DAMS, DAM REMOVAL, ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS, AND MORE:

• ECONorthwest Economic Study on Lower Snake River Dams: Economics Tradeoff of Removal Executive Summary (July 2019) Executive Summary and Full Report
• Factsheet: Myths and Facts of the Lower Snake River (Sierra Club, 2019)  PDF
• Report: Bonneville Power Administration - Threatened, Endangered, or on the Brink of Extinction? (Rocky Mountain Econometrics, 2018)  PDF
• Report: Bonneville Power Administration and the Lower Snake River Dams - The Folly of Conventional Wisdom (Rocky Mountain Econometrics, 2018)  PDF
• Presentation: New Perspectives of Freight Transport on the Lower Snake River (2018)  PDF
• Public Comment submitted to the Governor Inslee's Orca Recovery Task Force: Freight Transportation on the Lower Snake River (2018)  PDF
• Public Comment submitted to the Governor Inslee's Orca Recovery Task Force: Lower Snake River Hydropower (2018)  PDF
• Report: The Value of Natural Capital in the Columbia River Basin – a Comprehensive Analysis (Earth Economics, 2017)  PDF
• Brochure: The Value of Natural Capital in the Columbia River Basin – a Comprehensive Analysis (Earth Economics, 2017)  PDF
• FAQ for the Value of Natural Capital in the Columbia River Basin – A Comprehensive Analysis (Earth Economics, 2017)  PDF
• Economic Impacts of Pacific Salmon Fisheries (Prepared for the Pacific Salmon Commission by SGGislason and Associates, Ltd, 2017)  PDF
• National and Regional Economic Analysis of the Four Lower Snake River Dams – A review of the 2002 Lower Snake Feasibility Report/Environmental Impact Statement Economic Appendix (Earth Economics, 2016)  PDF
• Dam Removal: Case Studies on the Fiscal, Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits of Dam Removal (Headwaters Economics, 2016)  PDF
• Executive Summary: Dam Removal Case Studies on the Fiscal, Economic, Social, and Environmental Benefits of Dam Removal (Headwaters Economics, October 2016)  PDF
• The Costs of Keeping the Four Lower Snake River Dams: A Reevaluation of the Lower Snake River Feasibility Report (James Waddell, 2015)  PDF
• Lower Snake River Navigation Study (Rocky Mountain Econometrics, 2015)  PDF
• Graph: Lower Snake River Freight Traffic at Ice Harbor Dam – 1995-2015  PDF
• Factsheet: The Five Most Blatant Myths about Freight Transportation on the Lower Snake River (2013)  PDF
• Factsheet: It Costs to Have a Port (2014)  PDF
• Factsheet: Myths and Facts about lower Snake River dam removal (SOS, 2014)  PDF
• Report: Revenue Stream: An economic analysis of the costs and benefits of removing the four dams on the lower Snake River (2013)  PDF
• Factsheet: Freight Transport on the Lower Snake River: Putting Total Tonnage and Ton-miles in Perspective (2013)  PDF
• Economist Letter to the Washington State government highlighting the economic importance of salmon (1998) PDF
• The Cost of Doing Nothing - The economic burden of salmon declines in the Columbia River Basin (Institute of Fisheries Resources with Radke, 1996)  PDF

(3) ENERGY REPLACEMENT OF THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER DAMS:

• SOS Testimony to the Northwest Power and Conservation Concil regarding the 2019 Fish and Wildlife Amendment (2019)  PDF
• Lower Snake River Dams Power Replacement Study (NW Energy Coalition, 2018)  PDF
• Factsheet (1 page): Lower Snake River Dams Power Replacement Study (NW Energy Coalition, 2018)  PDF
• Factsheet (4-page): Lower Snake River Dams Power Replacement Study (NW Energy Coalition, 2018)  PDF
• Restoring wild salmon – Power system costs and benefits of lower Snake River dam removal (NW Energy Coalition, 2015)  PDF
• Lower Snake River Alternative Power Costs (Rocky Mountain Econometrics, 2015)  PDF
• Factsheet: Columbia Basin Dams, Salmon and Clean Energy (SOS, 2014)  PDF

(4) CONGRESS, TRIBES, AGENCIES, GOVERNORS AND OTHER SOVEREIGNS & POLICYMAKERS:

— A. Resolution, Reports, Letters, Statements from Northwest Tribes:

• Letter sent to Governor Inslee by the Nez Perce Tribe expressing its support for lower Snake River stakeholder forum (Jan. 2019) PDF

— B. Reports, Letters, Statements from Congress, Governors, and Policymakers:

• Congress Mike Simpson (ID-R) speech at Boise conference expressing the need to explore all options to save salmon and BPA (April 2019) Video and  Select Quotes
• Legislators’ letter signed by 43 state legislators, expressing support for two funding items for (1) increased spill at federal dams and (2) lower Snake River stakeholder forum (March 2019) PDF

— C. Factsheets and Letters from Local and National NGOs, businesses, PUDs, individuals and constituents:

• Letter from the Tri-Cities to Governor Inslee opposing stakeholder discussions (Jan. 2019) PDF
• SOS Factsheet supporting a state-led, facilitated conversation re: transitions and investments that would be required if the four lower Snake River dams are to be removed. (Winter 2019) PDF
• Sign-On Letter from 29 WA Organizations to legislators in support of increased spill and the formation of a dam removal stakeholder forum (Feb. 2019)  PDF
• Washington State Food Professionals letter to Governor Inslee in support of establishing a stakeholder forum regarding dam removal (Dec. 2018)  PDF
• Science packet regarding spill and lower Snake River dam removal delivered to members of Gov. Inslee's Orca Task Force (Sept. 2018)  PDF
• HR 3144:
  • American Fisheries Society Statement on HR 3144 (June 2018)  PDF
  • NGO Sign-on Letter to Congress opposing HR 3144 (April 2018)  PDF
  • Business Sign-on Letter to Congress opposing HR 3144 (April 2018)  PDF
  • Congressional Factsheet opposing HR 3144 (April 2018)  PDF
  • Senator Patty Murray and Representatives Adam Smith and Pramila Jayapal's letter to Congress opposing HR 3144 (February 2018)  PDF
  • Governor Kate Brown's Letter to Congress opposing HR 3144 (January 2018)  PDF
  • Governor Jay Inslee's Letter to Congress opposing HR 3144 (Dec. 2017)  PDF
  • Orca Salmon Alliance Letter to Gov. Inslee re: Emergency Orca Task Force (Oct. 2017)  PDF
  • NGO Sign-on letter to Governor Jay Inslee (WA) urging increased 'spill' to help endangered salmon and orca (Nov. 2017) PDF
  • NGO Sign-on letter to Northwest members of Congress re: HR 3144 (2017)  PDF
  • SOS-Earthjustice Factsheet: HR 3144 (2017)  PDF
  • HR 3144 – bill language (2017)  PDF
  • HR 3144 select materials from House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Water, Energy and Oceans hearing (Oct. 2017)
    • Nez Perce Tribe comments  PDF
    • Save Our wild Salmon comments  PDF
    • Alaska Trollers Association comments  PDF
    • National Wildlife Federation comments  PDF
    • Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association testimony  PDF
    • Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations comments  PDF
    • Orca Salmon Alliance comments  PDF
    • Coastal Trollers Association comments  PDF
    • NW Energy Coalition comments  PDF

(5) NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA) REVIEW:

• Factsheets:
  • Save Our wild Salmon Factsheet: 2020 Columbia River Systems Operations (CRSO) Final EIS and Biological Opinion (July 2020)  PDF
  • Save Our wild Salmon Coalition Factsheet: Why the CRSO Draft EIS will not bring people together or deliver solutions for Northwest salmon, communities or energy system (March 2020)  PDF
  • 2019/2020 NEPA review process of the Columbia River Systems Operations Factsheet PDF
  • NW Energy Coalition Factsheet: Considering all options, including a clean, affordable, renewable energy solution for the lower Snake River (2017) PDF
• NGO Letters:
  • Letter sent by 24 NGOs based in the Northwest states to Federal Agencies requesting that the CRSO DEIS public hearings be postponed and rescheduled at a late date after the public health risk caused by the coronavirus has passed. (March 2020) PDF
  • Letter sent by 22 NGOs based in the Northwest states to Federal Agencies requesting that the CRSO DEIS public comment period be extended from 45 days to 120 days to allow for meaningful public review and feedback. (March 2020) PDF
• Further Information:
  • 2020 Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Snake and Columbia River dams and salmon page with a summary of public comments and links to many detailed policy comments (DEIS CRSO)
  • NEPA Review Scoping Period page with a summary of public comments, links to many detailed policy comments (Oct. 2016 – Feb. 2017)

NextGen Salmon Collective’s new logo was designed by NWAAE artist Jillian Kelly.

Save Our wild Salmon is seeking interns for the school year to strategically organize educational and action-oriented opportunities in their communities. Your advocacy will support the Tribally-led regional campaign to protect salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin by restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River. Responsibilities will include working with the SOS team to carry out one strategic action per month. This is a roughly two-semester program, with a break around the holidays and with flexibility for the various commitments that arise during the school year.

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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 in the 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.

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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 30-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.

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We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Do we use 'cookies'?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

• Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, Some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.It won't affect the user's experience that make your site experience more efficient and may not function properly.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.

Third-party links

We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website.

Google

Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

We have implemented the following:

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

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

According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

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:

• On our Privacy Policy Page

Can change your personal information:

• By emailing us
• By logging in to your account

How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

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.

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
• 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.
• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at

• Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.

and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

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
USA
joseph@wildsalmon.org
206-300-1003

Last Edited on 2017-10-07