Save Our Wild Salmon

03/06/2026

🗳️🐟We’re officially five months away from the midterm election! Please join us as we organize across the region to encourage people to vote with salmon & orca in mind and provide important voter information! This is a great way to contribute to our democracy and send a unified message during the 2026 midterms—in support of protecting our lands, water, orca, and salmon. Together, we will make a tangible impact!

🙌 We’re looking for volunteers to assist in distributing posters in visible locations across the region. Sign up to volunteer to Get Out the Vote at https://secure.everyaction.com/9x8H4Vm0PkOaK6HYEnVVfQ2

Posters (and a special salmon and orca VOTE t-shirt for volunteers!) can be picked up at events across the region!

🥳To register or to learn more about the GOTV events, visit wildsalmon.org/vote

We hope you will join us! 🗳️🐟🌊

03/06/2026

We are excited to announce the Seven Sisters Campaign! 🌟

The Seven Sisters Campaign is a national public engagement and leadership initiative led by Se’Si’Le in collaboration with tribal, environmental, and faith-based partners. Centering the leadership of seven Indigenous women, the campaign addresses the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss, climate disruption, and environmental injustice. By uplifting Indigenous ways of knowing—rooted in relational responsibility, ecosystem restoration, and long-term stewardship—the campaign offers pathways toward resilience and collective action.

📆Throughout Spring, Summer, and Fall of 2026, events will unfold across the Pacific Northwest and New York City. Together, these events invite communities to rethink their relationship with nature, with one another, and with the responsibilities we share.

Learn more at https://se-si-le.org/campaigns/seven-sisters

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02/06/2026

June is Orca Action Month! 🥳 Please join us for a special Orca Month free webinar on June 9th at 5:30pm PT hosted by Salish Sea Institute at WWU and Orca Salmon Alliance. Hear experts from both Canada and the US about the current policy work related to recovering salmon and orca populations.

🌊Register today: https://foundation.wwu.edu/event/orca-action-month
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Speakers:
Michael Weiss (Center for Whale Research) - Current state of SRKW
Tara Galuska (WA Salmon Recovery Office) - State legislation
Jeremy Lucas (Oceana) - Federal legislation
Abby Dalke (Save Our Wild Salmon) - Importance of voting

2026 Orca Action Month Opening Webinar!

Please join us for a special Orca Month free webinar hosted by Salish Sea Institute at WWU and Orca Salmon Alliance. We will be talking with experts from both Canada and the US about the current policy work related to recovering salmon and orca populations. We will have short presentations and then time for Q&A.
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Speakers:
Michael Weiss (Center for Whale Research) - Current state of SRKW
Tara Galuska (WA Salmon Recovery Office) - State legislation
Jeremy Lucas Oceana) - Federal legislation
Abby Dalke (Save Our Wild Salmon) - Importance of voting
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June 9th 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Register at https://foundation.wwu.edu/event/orca-action-month

28/05/2026

☕️You’re invited to Sierra Club WA Chapter and Save Our wild Salmon’s Southwest Washington Environmental Advocacy Brunch! 🍳

🌲Whether you are a longtime advocate or just starting to get involved, these monthly brunches are a great opportunity to meet others who care about salmon, climate action, and environmental justice, and build momentum to protect our environment across the Vancouver area!

🥞Join us! RSVP at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po00001lQYXCIA4&emci=633bf0b9-f64e-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=36fecd4d-a550-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=6745982

🗓️Sat., May 30
⌚️11am - 12:30pm
📍Heathen Brewing & Kitchen, Vancouver
🥞Brunch food is provided

22/05/2026

Emergency court ordered measures for endangered salmon are not the reason our region is facing energy affordability and reliability issues – and won’t cause blackouts either, as Bonneville Power Administration, Public Power Council, and other utilities falsely claim.

🐟️We can protect and recover our salmon while also scaling up to meet our rapidly increasing energy demands, but we must develop additional non-hydropower energy sources and modernize our grid with clean, affordable options.

💡 Together, we can invest in a future with healthy and abundant salmon populations and affordable and reliable power. We urge BPA and our utilities to sincerely join us in this effort, and develop real solutions based on facts, data, and science—not waste our time perpetuating false claims and harmful rhetoric.

🌊 Learn more at https://www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-media/opinion/power-officials-bending-the-truth-to-dismiss-harm-to-salmon.html

21/05/2026

🌱We invite you to the RENEWAL webinar focused on renewing and reimagining our commitment to each other, our non-human neighbors, and the special places we all call home.

🌎 Through photography and firsthand storytelling, Kiliii Yüyan will take us on a transformative journey to places and people living in relationship with their ancestral homelands, and illuminate the courage, knowledge, challenges, and stewardship that sustain life on Earth.

🥳 Join us for an inspiring and hopeful evening celebrating Indigenous leadership and the future of our planet!

🐟Register at wildsalmon.org/renewal

📅May 21 at 6pm PT

💻 Zoom

🎥 Webinar Recording Note: The book Guardians of Life has an Impact Campaign with a series of upcoming in-person and virtual events over the next several months. We encourage people to share event details with others and attend these events to learn more about the book. For this reason, we will not be able to share this webinar recording in the near-term, but plan to do so later this year on the Save Our wild Salmon website. We are honored to be part of Kiliii Yüyan’s Impact Campaign, and we hope you can join us!

🌊This webinar is co-hosted by Save Our Wild Salmon, Braided River, Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, Native Organizers Alliance, Washington Conservation Action

📸Photos by Kiliii Yuyan, Photographer

15/05/2026

🐟 Each spring, salmon and steelhead begin their ancestral migration journey– as recently hatched juveniles high in the Columbia-Snake River Basin swim toward the ocean and as adults return from the ocean in search of their spawning gravels. Their miraculous full-circle migration spans many thousands of miles from freshwater to salt and back again.

🐟 Unfortunately, some populations have been lost altogether; many endangered and threatened fish return today at just 1 or 2 percent of their historic abundance. The federal dams and their reservoirs on the lower Columbia and lower Snake rivers today are the main driver of these precipitous population declines.

❤️ Still, the Northwest native fish's persistence and fidelity to place lies at the heart of its encouraging resilience. It’s devotion to completing this journey year after year in the face of such obstacles and barriers inspires us also - to continue our work with you and many others to restore a resilient Northwest with a healthy, resilient, and sustainable Columbia Basin, clean water, and abundant salmon, steelhead, and orcas.

📢 Take action for and read about our recent collective advocacy to protect salmon and steelhead: https://www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-media/newsletters/mar-apr-wssn-2026.html

Artwork: Pilgrimage © Josh Udesen - Tightline Studio, 2020, acrylic painting on birch panel, 24" x 30"

14/05/2026

🌎“Indigenous peoples have mastered the art of living on Earth without destroying it. They continue to teach and lead by example. We must heed these lessons, if we want our grandchildren to have a future.” — Jon Waterhouse, S'klallam, Chippewa-Cree

🤩 Join the RENEWAL webinar featuring Kiliii Yuyan, Photographer on May 21 at 6pm PT on Zoom! Register today at wildsalmon.org/renewal

📸 Through photography and firsthand storytelling, Kiliii will transport us to the most stunning locations from the book Guardians of Life that shares how Indigenous communities live in relationship with their ancestral homelands.

🌊This book upholds the inherent sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples to care for their ancestral lands and waters, and seeks to build a movement that would broadly benefit and sustain life on planet Earth for all.

🥳 This webinar is co-hosted by Save Our Wild Salmon, Braided River, Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, Native Organizers Alliance, Washington Conservation Action

📸Photos by Kiliii Yüyan, Kiliii Yuyan, Photographer

13/05/2026

🎬Join us Friday, May 15, for a free Yakima Environmental Justice Film Series screening of These Sacred Hills, a film by Jacob Bailey, Chris Ward, and members of the Rock Creek Band of the Yakama Nation.

This documentary follows members of the Rock Creek Band as they confront a green energy project threatening their sacred mountain, Pushpum. Elaine Harvey, Member of the Yakama Nation’s Ḱamíłpa Band and dedicated activist, and Bronsco Jim Jr., Ḱamíłpa Chief, will join us following the screening for a live discussion and Q&A.

🎟️ RSVP here: https://www.tfaforms.com/5219395