Dear Supporter Many interesting facts have recently come to light about the Snake River dams: 1) The energy produced by the dams is surplus. 2) Breaching could produce up to $500 million in annual recreation benefits, and 3000 to 4000 jobs along the lower Snake River corridor. 1) Breaching would save taxpayer and ratepayer money. We need donations to help pay for the necessary reports needed to convince Obama of the evidence for breaching the lower Snake dams. Within the past few years, public support in favor of breaching the four lower Snake River dams has gained rapid momentum. Close to 250,000 people have educated themselves and now support lower Snake River dam breaching through email campaigns and petitions. Currently, two petitions include 20,000 comments. A recent campaign generated 782 supporters in two months. The supporters shared a message with their social media networks. That message asked people to call Gov. Jay Inslee and ask him to support Obama taking Executive Action to breach the four lower Snake River dams. The message reached 1,409,313 people. The National media attention has brought this issue further into the public eye; articles are appearing in publications such as National Geographic, Huffington Post, Washington Post, The New York Times, High Country News and various Washington and Idaho newspapers. Many leading environmental organizations have become involved including Patagonia, Center for Whale Research, Orca Network, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, NRDC, Endangered Species Coalition, Center for Biological Diversity and Oceana. The documentary films DamNation and Dammed to Extinction (to be released) will bring the issue to audiences world wide. In October of last year, three-hundred fishermen, paddlers, conservationists, and regional tribal members joined together to paddle three-miles to Lower Granite dam. There they floated in the still, warm river and unfurled a 100-foot long banner which read 'Free the Snake.' People from as far away as Alabama attended the two day informational event. Boaters carried signs with them reading: ‘A River of Negligible Use.–Corps of Engineers’ or ‘Something is Happening Here…’ Another sign read ‘More Salmon, More Orcas.’ The event was widely publicized and could become an annual meeting of salmon and orca activists. A new generation has become well-informed with the problems and costs associated with the lower Snake dams. They realize that all methods of salmon recovery have been attempted in the Columbia/Snake Basins and that the last piece of the puzzle for recovering Federally Endangered salmon and Southern Resident orcas is to provide a free-flowing salmon migration corridor on the lower Snake River. The cultural heritage and natural landscape of the Pacific Northwest is dependent on the leaders who will choose to leave a political legacy in the American landscape.