Will Columbia-Snake River Salmon Be Saved?

Leanne Roulson, WDAFS president, says if fish numbers continue to decline, her group has determined the plan isn’t aggressive enough to save them.
“We’re all about preserving and conserving the fisheries resource, while the political aspects of it are not really relevant to the stances we take or the opinions we put out there.”

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Two top members of President Obama’s environmental team were in the Northwest during late May but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon and hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin.

NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Nancy Sutley attended closed-doors sessions in Portland with scientists, government officials and Indian tribes, and were scheduled on to tour one of the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington that conservationists and some Indian tribes want removed to restore endangered salmon.

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A scientist goes looking for a shrub and discovers a nearly lost world of tidal beavers thriving in a rare habitat in the Skagit Delta. His discovery raises questions for salmon-recovery projects based on incomplete information — likened to a kind of ecological amnesia about what was here before.

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06.04.2009

Indian Country News

Obama officials come to NW to learn salmon issues

By Jeff Barnard

Grants Pass, Oregon (AP) 6-09

Two top members of President Obama’s environmental team were in the Northwest during late May but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon and hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin.

NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and White House Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Nancy Sutley attended closed-doors sessions in Portland with scientists, government officials and Indian tribes, and were scheduled on to tour one of the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington that conservationists and some Indian tribes want removed to restore endangered salmon.

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Tasmam Koyom Cultural Foundation, Paynes Creek

A Salmon Story in it’s truest Spirit.

Salmon begin long journey back to Yakima Basin

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The Maidu Summit is a consortium of Mountain Maidu groups composed of two recognized rancherias (Greenville and Susanville), two petitioning tribes (Tsi’Akim and United Maidu Nation), three non-profit organizations (Tasmam Koyom Cultural Foundation, Maidu Cultural and Development Group, and Roundhouse Council), and two Indian organizations (Maiduk We’ye and Mountain Maidu Preservation Association).

SALMON PASSAGE
FERC RELICENSING LEADERSHIP
COMMUNITY & TRIBAL COALITION BUILDING
YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
WATERSCAPE PLANNING
ENDANGERED NATIVE PLANT RESTORATION
HYDROPOWER REFORM POLICY DEVELOPMENT

Alliances

Just because we are in the Sierra’s does not mean that tribal and community people can not participate. Our call is about
everyone. Every community has something to “call back,” that which has been lost. From prairie dogs to red-legged frogs, we can help each other.

We have drifted too far from Creator. It is time for all people, of all color, to acknowledge that we are people of the earth.
As we know this, we begin our collective walk toward meaning, toward sharing our unique gift of self, and realizing our highest vision of life.

Saving Sierra Salmon grows from a region on the map of the earth where people have joined together to share their voice
in the FERC relicensing process. We hope to connect our voice with your voice. Let us put a pin on the map of where we are, so that we may connect our collective vision.

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