This Weekend Take Action to Restore the Lower Snake River

Public Comments are Due by 5:00pm on Monday, July 11

A central theme of Wild Steelhead: Now or Never is the call for steelheaders to use their time off the water to take action to restore wild steelhead and their home rivers. This weekend our community has an important opportunity to do exactly that.

Public comments responding to the draft of Senator Patty Murray and Governor Jay Inslee's report on the benefits and costs of removing the four Lower Snake River Dams - while replacing the energy, irrigation, and transportation services they provide - are due by 5:00pm on Monday, July 11. All of us should take a few minutes to tell Senator Murray and Governor Inslee that wild steelhead and salmon, and the communities that depend on healthy fish runs, need these four destructive dams removed before it is finally too late.

Never before have such high-profile Washington political leaders seriously weighed the opportunity and investments required to breach the four Lower Snake River Dams, restore steelhead and salmon runs and a free-flowing lower Snake, honor treaty obligations with regional tribes, and invest in the infrastructure to best serve the region's future. Murray and Inslee are building on the bipartisan political momentum created by Congressman Mike Simpson's proposal last winter.

Murray and Inslee, and their staff and fellow office-holders, need to hear from steelheaders: It is time to breach the four dams on the Lower Snake River and invest in the region's infrastructure. Wild steelhead and salmon in the Snake River cannot be sacrificed. The path forward is now clear. This is the moment for the bold steps required to restore these runs. Get your comments sent by Monday!