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Pacific Rivers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting clean water and healthy rivers for people, fish and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest.
06/14/2022
✨Our new issue of the Free Flow newsletter is out now! ✨You can find this issue, as well as past issues of the newsletter, on our website (link in bio).
The spring issue includes a status update from the Chair of the Board and in-depth reports from Board Members on current projects, including our Snake River Clean Water Act settlement. We also remember devoted board members who have recently passed away.
We're proud of this issue of Free Flow and the work and advocacy it celebrates. We hope you have time to check it out and find the essays, updates, and beautiful photos inspiring and informative.
09/02/2021
Storytelling is a powerful tool for educating the public and reminding all of us why we need to fight for the Northwest's clean water, free-flowing rivers, and incredible native fish.
Shane Anderson is one of the best storytellers of this era and only getting better with each project. Don't miss this exceptional profile on his work and conservation ethic by Erin Spaulding.
The Ones We Lose It’s an hour till dark on the Olympic Peninsula’s lower Hoh River. The aquamarine water and neon greens of this temperate rainforest are currently bathed in a muted blue as Shane Anderson takes in the Pacific Ocean. It’s the end of the river and an end to the last steelhead fishing trip for th...
Stop what you're doing and take six minutes to watch this powerful recap of the Salmon Orca Summit convened by the Nez Perce Tribe and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians in July.
For two days, tribal leaders testified on what the loss of salmon has meant for their culture and the region as a whole. They called for the United States to honor our treaty obligations and finally take the bold, collaborative actions required to heal rivers and restore fisheries for the benefit and future of all the people of the Northwest.
Attendees heard David Johnson's warning of how close the Snake River's salmon and steelhead teeter on extinction - how they can't survive too many more hot summers like the one we are all experiencing in 2021 without bold interventions.
Many elected leaders appeared via staffers or through online presentations. Congressman Mike Simpson was in attendance both days, listening to testimony and offering his urgent call to remove the four Lower Snake River Dams and invest in the region's clean energy and transportation infrastructure.
Watch, listen, and share the video widely. Our elected officials need to hear this testimony. As Steelhead runs fall to the lowest levels ever seen, and Spring Chinook and Sockeye fight to hang on in the Columbia and Snake Basin, it is time to truly change direction before it is finally too late for these keystone species.
08/22/2021
Greg Haller, executive director of Pacific Rivers, told Clearing Up, "Conservation groups have been advocating for ecosystem-based function as a new leg of the treaty, and I don't see anything in these amendments that points to that future."
A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the U.S. Senate Aug. 10 includes an amendment from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that supporters say will help the U.S. negotiate a new Columbia River Treaty that will provide more equitable entitlement payments to British Columbia.
Environmental groups, however, say they're disappointed the bill does not include funding for a plan to remove the four lower Snake River dams, and that Cantwell's amendment includes nothing to ensure fish and the environment are protected in a new treaty.
Provisions for Columbia River Treaty Included in Infrastructure Bill A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the U.S. Senate Aug. 10 includes an amendment from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that supporters say will help the U.S. negotiate a new
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