Southern Resident orcas need Snake River salmon!

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Southern Resident orcas need Snake River salmon, and Snake River salmon need a plan.

Now is the time to take action to restore the Snake River - join us to urge Pacific Northwest leaders to commit to a comprehensive plan to bring back Snake River salmon, a critical source of food for Southern Resident orcas.

No matter where you live, we feel your love for the Southern Residents in the Pacific Northwest. These orcas are known and beloved throughout the world. Let Pacific Northwest leaders know you're paying attention - and you want them to act.

Southern Resident orcas need Snake River salmon, and Snake River salmon need a plan.

Now is the time to take action to restore the Snake River - join us to urge Pacific Northwest leaders to commit to a comprehensive plan to bring back Snake River salmon, a critical source of food for Southern Resident orcas.

No matter where you live, we feel your love for the Southern Residents in the Pacific Northwest. These orcas are known and beloved throughout the world. Let Pacific Northwest leaders know you're paying attention - and you want them to act.

Email your Members of Congress to help Southern Resident orcas!

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Thank you for speaking up for Southern Resident orcas! As a Pacific Northwesterner, we’re asking you to send an email directly to our Congressional delegation in support of a collaborative, region-wide effort to restore rivers, recover salmon, and put more food in the ocean for Southern Resident orcas.

The federal agencies are not willing and not able to do all that’s necessary to support communities in a transition to a free-flowing Snake River, a vital step in restoring the ecosystem that supports Southern Resident orcas and ourselves. It’s time for our elected leaders to step up and bring Pacific Northwest communities together to develop a holistic plan that works for all communities – including the Southern Resident orcas.

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Southern Resident orcas and Pacific salmon need your help.  If these two icons of our region are to avoid extinction, they urgently need real solutions, and we need your leadership to develop those solutions.

I am writing to urge you to work with your colleagues in Congress to build a regional coalition and develop an inclusive plan for restoration of the Columbia River watershed, including: removing the Lower Snake River dams, honoring our commitments to Native Tribes, developing smart investments in the needs of communities of the PNW, and restoring healthy ecosystems for salmon and Southern Resident orcas.

Our Southern Resident orcas are a unique group of orcas, unlike any others in the world.  They are quintessential “Pacific Northwest whales” – both emblematic of our beautiful home and exquisitely adapted to the ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest, especially our once abundant runs of salmon.  As salmon have declined, the orcas have suffered, and they are now living on the brink of extinction.

With your past leadership, we have made great advancements in protecting and restoring habitat, recovering salmon, and developing collaborative conservation efforts.  We can save salmon and orcas while supporting communities.  To continue this work, bold solutions are needed now more than ever to address the salmon and orca crisis in the Columbia Basin.

The recent Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Columbia River Systems Operations (CRSO), which includes the lower Snake River dams, was an opportunity for federal agencies to take a fresh approach to managing the CRSO. Unfortunately, the agencies’ preferred alternative essentially maintains the status quo and will not recover salmon or help the Southern Residents recover.  We need your leadership to develop a new path forward.

People across our region know that this plan is not enough, and the science is clear – the four Lower Snake River dams threaten the survival of salmon and Southern Resident orcas.  We are ready for a comprehensive, collaborative solution that supports the future of our local communities and the health of our shared ecosystem.

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