Snake River Restoration
Imagine: a million more Chinook salmon flooding the Columbia River Basin, every year.
Want more fish?
Removing the earthen sections of the four federal dams on the lower Snake River and increasing the flow of the river, we can more than double the return of salmon and steelhead back to Idaho. The legislative-will is there and it’s our best opportunity, right now, to effect monumental change in our lifetime. We can make it happen.
We have a unique opportunity to bring salmon back to the Northwest
The Northwest region is begging for a new solution. Working together, we can bring salmon back to abundance, honor the treaty rights of Northwest tribes, enhance our region’s economy, and maintain a reliable, affordable, clean electric power system.
Endangered wild Snake River salmon and steelhead populations are continuing to decline and are heading toward extinction.
A comprehensive solution is possible because of the changing regional landscape.
The political landscape has changed, and the conversation has changed because Snake River dam breaching holds so much promise with virtually no downside consequences.
“We have options. But we don’t have a lot of time. We can maintain cheap, clean power, bring back healthy harvestable salmon runs; and protect the livelihoods of neighbors upriver, downriver and on the coast. I truly believe this is within our reach.”