The most effective way to influence what happens next is to take the action below and engage others on a broader scale. Please forward this to your friends, family, and colleagues.
Right now, the Biden administration is evaluating whether to breach the lower Snake River dams. A decision will be made in the next few months. We are closer than we have ever been to recovering wild Snake River salmon in the Snake River.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is taking a lead role in the decision-making process. CEQ is seeking comments on Snake River dam breaching through this online link. There, click SUBMIT A FORMAL COMMENT.
CEQ needs to know that lower Snake River dam breaching has popular support. This is your opportunity. Please click the link and let CEQ know you support dam breaching to save wild salmon and the Southern Resident Killer Whales.
Your comments could be as brief as any one of these comment examples:
- I support breaching the four lower Snake River dams beginning this year to save wild salmon and the Southern Resident Killer Whales from extinction.
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has determined that lower Snake River dam breaching is essential and must begin immediately to save wild salmon.
- The Nez Perce tribe reports that 77% of the Snake River’s wild spring chinook will be quasi-extinct by 2025—two years from now—unless immediate action is taken.
- To survive, Pacific Northwest indigenous people depend on Snake River salmon.
- To survive, the Southern Resident Killer Whales (aka resident orcas) depend on Snake River chinook.
- Only 73 Southern Resident Killer Whales remain. There were 85 whales in 2005 when the orcas were listed. They are headed for extinction without immediate action.
- Fisheries have been shut down nearly coast-wide. Lower Snake River dam breaching will help tribal and non-tribal fisheries survive.