It is time to do some good.
The Lower Snake River: The Worst Salmon & Steelhead Returns in Over 200 Years
Skip Clement
It’s time for bold action. Idaho’s salmon and steelhead runs are in critical condition. We need your help.
We are experiencing some of our worst returns on record for both salmon and steelhead.
The overwhelming scientific evidence is that we need a free-flowing lower Snake River to recover Idaho’s salmon and steelhead.
As anglers, scientists, volunteers and advocates, Trout Unlimited is wholly committed to a future that includes fish. We cannot fathom the alternative.
TU, with partners and volunteers, has put millions of dollars on the ground in the Pacific Northwest, restoring and reconnecting important salmon and steelhead habitat. It is our audacious vision that we will once again see salmon and steelhead return en masse to our rivers; bending the rods of anglers and restoring our local economies.
Over several decades, multiple transparent and high-integrity scientific assessments that included Tribal, federal, University and state agency scientists have come to this same conclusion.
Unless we take bold action to change the current trajectory, these fish will continue to decline – and eventually go extinct.
Male Chinook [king salmon] in spawning colors. Illustration by award winning watercolorist Thom Glace.
The Salmon & Steelhead Have No Other Options
We cannot solve the salmon crisis with incremental steps. With the best available science and 40 years of hindsight, we must acknowledge that hatcheries, fish ladders, spills and barging and other billion-dollar band aids have failed to recover Snake River salmon and steelhead.
It’s time for dam removal
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Adult steelhead trout watercolor illustration by award winning artist Thom Glace.
