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Working to save salmon and orcas by breaching Washington States lower 4 Snake River Dams. Contacts:
Sharon Grace, Coordinator, [email protected]

11/01/2026

A question for the NW Power Council—Why would you not consider breaching the four lower Snake River dams with their power output of under 700 aMH under the guise that the PNW will experience power outages if the dams are breached, yet consider adding data centers that would take an additional 3600 MW? If the power system will struggle if the lower Snake Dams are breached, as the Council contends, what will it do with an additional 3600 MW demand?

Just as Northwest power planners consider building out energy sources to ensure a minimum level of resource adequacy, they should also assure that salmon and steelhead returns are maintained at a minimum level of healthy and harvestable returns, said Jay Hesse, Director of Biological Services with t...

11/01/2026

The SRKWs' and Snake River wild salmon runs' continued existence could be helped immensely, if this suit is successful. Check out the numbers in this article.

||| FROM EMMA HALVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| SEATTLE, Washington—Nearly nine out of ten Chinook salmon caught in commercial fisheries along the South Alaska Peninsula in 2024 and 2025 originated outside Alaska, according to research from the Alaska Department

10/31/2026

This is a dam big issue for salmon and SRKWs, and has been for the last two power plans. The Power Council refuses to run its GENESYS modeling tool minus the four lower Snake River dams. Is the Power Council afraid of the results, or is BPA constraining the modeling?

When you use an artificial intelligence system like ChatGPT, what it gives you depends on the prompt you enter. The answer is likely to be most useful if the prompt is carefully crafted. This underlies a concern recently raised at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. That regional planning....

10/31/2026

The walleye's voracious appetite for Snake River juvenile salmon threat is getting worse.

Walleye are piscis non grata on a 140-mile stretch of Washington, Oregon and Idaho's Snake River. That's the nut of a recently revealed tri-state policy statement as the nonnative species colonizes more and more of the watershed, threatening salmon and steelhead populations.

10/31/2026

A sad reminder of what may happen in the Salish Sea with Canada's continuing expansion of its crude oil pipelines and more and more tar sand loaded tankers traveling our inland waters.

Prince William Sound, on Alaska's southern coast, is a maze of fjords, islands and glacier-fed bays where harbor seals rest on shoreline rocks and floating ice. However, the mammal-eating orcas are called transients and biologists track individuals by the shapes and patterns on their dorsal fins and...

10/30/2026

For those who want to speak "orca," good luck! Here's a new orca sound catalog from John Ford, Canadian orca researcher for more than 45 years.

A new open-access catalogue of whale calls will help researchers and orca enthusiasts identify distinct killer whale populations, clans and family groups by their vocalizations alone. Developed at Simon Fraser University, the Orca Call Catalogue serves as a field guide to killer whale calls, pulling...

10/18/2026

The Center for Responsible Forestry (CRF) has a petition calling on WA DNR Commissioner Upthegrove to protect the Elwha' watershed's remaining mature forests on state lands.

“Join us in calling on Commissioner Upthegrove and DNR to take a landscape-level approach and recommend a Natural Area that fully reflects the extraordinary ecological and public value of the Elwha Watershed.

Click below to sign the petition today and help protect the Elwha for generations to come."

10/17/2026

SEQUIM October 22nd Event!
If you are in the area, please register below and attend in person!

The Pacific Salmon Commission is meeting in person in Sequim, Washington, for its 2026 Fall Meeting—and we're bringing the movement with us. Join the Let Our Salmon Come Home campaign in Sequim on Thursday, October 22, for a full day of camaraderie, music, food, and voices for change, as we amplif...

10/16/2026

Informative article summarizing the state of the Southern Resident Orca population today.

The southern resident killer whales — those fish-eating orcas that were once tied closely to Puget Sound — have managed to stay somewhat intact, with no deaths among the adult population for more than two years. As I reported this summer, four new calves were reported during the recent census ye...

10/09/2026

ACTION ALERT, REQUIRED BY END OF DAY OCT 9TH!

Please comment today. The Trump Administration is proposing a restrictive definition of "Clean Water" that will have a harmful effect on most living things, including the critically endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales and the salmon on which they depend.

This is important. Please SHARE far and wide.

We all live downstream, and we all need to speak up for the clean water laws that protect our communities, our wild trout and salmon. Many TU advocates stood

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