With the new Congress, we have a new chance to take action that will both recover endangered salmon in America's Pacific Northwest and restore 140 miles of wild, free-flowing river. What's good for salmon is also good for paddlers, and, it turns out, good for national taxpayers, too.

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TODAY: urge him/her to join Representatives Jim McDermott (D-WA), Thomas Petri (R-WI), Napolitano (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and others to support HR 1507 Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act (SEAPA) to get the economic and scientific information that we need to recover our salmon and steelhead and restore a healthy lower Snake River.

CLICK HERE TO RESTORE THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER AND ITS SALMON TODAY --
http://ga0.org/campaign/newsalmonplanningact

The federal government is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on failing and illegal salmon plans in the Columbia basin, as salmon and steelhead populations decline toward extinction. The Columbia and Snake Rivers was once home to the world's greatest salmon and steelhead runs. Today, 13 runs are endangered. All Snake River stocks - chinook, steelhead, and sockeye - are in danger.

Why? Four costly federal dams on lower Snake River help kill as many as 90% of the young fish before they even reach the ocean.  The dams have choked off healthy salmon runs, destroyed more than 70 named pre-dam rapids like Haunted House, Strawberry Island, Slaughterhouse, and Penawawa.

Please join other conservationists, fishermen, and paddlers to stop the illegal plans, the wasted money, and declining stocks - and start restoring our fish and our rivers.

It's time to invest our public dollars on programs that work. HR 1507 - The Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act - will make sure that we have the scientific and economic information needed to understand the costs and benefits of removing the four lower Snake River dams, restoring a free-flowing river, and crafting a legal, science-based AND fiscally-responsible recovery plan to restore healthy salmon and Northwest rivers to our West Coast communities.

For more information on HR 1507:
http://www.wildsalmon.org

You can find the full list of co-sponsors here:
http://www.wildsalmon.org/library/lib-detail.cfm?docID=576
If your representative is already listed you can send a note of thanks for their leadership on this issue.

THANK YOU for your help!

For more information, contact:

Thomas O'Keefe, Pacific Northwest Stewardship Director
American Whitewater
425-417-9012

Joseph Bogaard, Outreach Director
Save Our Wild Salmon / Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign
206-286-4455, x103