Save Our Wild Salmon

📆 Mark your calendars for May 21! Join the RENEWAL webinar featuring Kiliii Yüyan — award-winning photographer, author, and National Geographic Explorer! 📸 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. 📚️ In the Guardians of Life book, Kiliii Yüyan captures vivid portraits of Indigenous people, youth and elders, hunters and farmers, spiritual leaders and craftsmen, revealing their ways of knowing and taking care of the land. 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. 🐟 Register to join the webinar at the link in bio or at wildsalmon.org/renewal 🌊This webinar is co-hosted by @savewildsalmon @braidedriver @ridgestoriffles @nativeorganizersalliance @WAConservationAction 📸Photos by Kiliii Yüyan, @kiliiiyuyan

🎉 You’re invited to the RENEWAL spring webinar series! Join us as we share stories of renewal, positive change, and resilience, and spotlight inspiring work under way to repair and recover the lands, waters, and wildlife in the Columbia Basin, across the Northwest, and beyond. 🥳 RENEWAL webinar series: 📆 April 30 at 6pm PT: A Journey Through The Big River with @moskowitz_david — award-winning photographer, author, wildlife biologist, and tracker. 📆 May 21 at 6pm PT: Guardians of Life: Indigenous Science, Indigenous Wisdom, and Restoring the Planet with @kiliiiyuyan — award-winning photographer, author, and National Geographic Explorer. 🐟 Learn more & register at the linkinbio or at wildsalmon.org/renewal The series is in collaboration with @savewildsalmon @braidedriver @nwsteelheaders @nwfpacific @nationalwildlife @ridgestoriffles @nativeorganizersalliance @WAConservationAction

🐟 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 healthy, resilient, and sustainable Columbia Basin, clean water, and abundant salmon, steelhead, and orcas. 📢 Take action this #EndangeredSpeciesDay and read about our recent collective advocacy to protect salmon and steelhead at the linkinbio! Artwork: Pilgrimage © Josh Udesen @tightlinestudio , 2020, acrylic painting on birch panel, 24” x 30”

🌎“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 Yüyan on May 21 at 6pm PT on Zoom! Register today at the linkinbio or at wildsalmon.org/renewal 📸Through photography and firsthand storytelling, Kiliii Yüyan 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 @savewildsalmon @braidedriver @ridgestoriffles @nativeorganizersalliance @WAConservationAction 📸Photos by Kiliii Yüyan, @kiliiiyuyan

🎬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. @sacredhillsfilm 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 at the linkinbio!

Communities around the world are using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to protect their corners of the Earth. Explore renewal through the lens of @kiliiiyuyan camera and years spent building trust within and learning from conservation efforts of Indigenous people worldwide, in a webinar in partnership with @savewildsalmon @ridgestoriffle @nativeorganizersalliance @WAConservationAction Event details: RENEWAL Webinar Series May 21 @ 6 PM PT on Zoom Learn more and RSVP at the link in bio! #renewal #conservation #IndigenousKnowledge #webinar #sovereignty

🗳️If you're looking for ways to get involved with voting efforts in the Northwest, you're in luck! Join our art-centered, grassroots-driven Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Campaign to inspire your community to vote and remind people of what’s at stake in our Northwest home! 📢To learn more about getting involved, register for the May Action Hour, where we will share opportunities to volunteer, brainstorm community engagement activities, and hear from our partners - Whidbey Environmental Action Network, and the Consolidated Oregon Indivisible Network (COIN) about creative and inspiring strategies to Get Out The Vote! 🔗 Register at the linkinbio

🌱 “If you want to protect the land and the sea and everything in it, the best and easiest way to do that is to support Indigenous Peoples, to support land rights and sovereignty. By caring about humans, that’s the easiest way to care about the environment.” — Kiliii Yüyan, award-winning photographer, author, and National Geographic Explorer 🥳 Join the RENEWAL webinar featuring @kiliiiyuyan on May 21 at 6pm PT, and hear more from Yüyan, who will take us on a transformative journey to places and people living in relationship with their ancestral homelands, and their efforts to effectively protect their lands and waters. 🐟 Register to join the webinar at the link in bio or at wildsalmon.org/renewal 🌊This webinar is co-hosted by @savewildsalmon @braidedriver @ridgestoriffles @nativeorganizersalliance @WAConservationAction 📸Photos by Kiliii Yüyan, @kiliiiyuyan

📢 Right now, in the Northwest, the salmon are migrating – and in DC, federal funding is being allocated for 2027! Take action today and urge your members of Congress to strongly support the Six Sovereigns' FY27 appropriation requests to recover salmon and invest in our communities – moving everyone forward together. Like previous years, the Six Sovereigns’ recommendations focus on funding habitat protection and restoration, water quality, and other actions that help salmon in the near term. However, the Trump administration has put forth a reckless and negligent budget proposal for FY27 that would slash critical environmental and salmon recovery budgets. Our members of Congress need to hear from you, so they stand strong and fight for appropriations that support the recommendations of the Six Sovereigns. 🐟 Act now to support the Six Sovereigns’ FY27 appropriation requests to recover salmon and invest in our communities! 🔗 Take action at the link in our bio.

🐟️ GiveBig TODAY for salmon & rivers - and your donation will be doubled! By making a gift to Save Our wild Salmon today, you’ll help SOS continue to build the public demand and political leadership we need to recover healthy salmon populations. 🌊 Give now, and your donation will be matched for double the impact. Donate at the linkinbio! 🙌 Supporters like you are at the heart of our work to protect and restore the wild salmon and steelhead that come home to the Columbia and Snake rivers every year. Thank you for all that you do for our iconic salmon and your advocacy to shape our future!

🐟️ Springtime means migration time for the salmon and finals season for our student leaders - so we’re extending our deadline for the NextGen Salmon Collective Internship! Apply to the summer internship by May 11! 🌊Link in bio to learn and apply. 🐟️ NextGen Salmon Collective is a space for young advocates to develop their community organizing and advocacy skills with the goal of rebuilding abundant wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia-Snake River Basin by protecting and restoring the healthy, resilient rivers and streams they depend upon. Interns will lead community outreach projects and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with other youth organizers across the region. Not a student? No problem. Do you know a student who is passionate about environmental justice? Please share this opportunity with them!

🙌 Join us on tonight’s 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 photographs and stories from his travels across the vast Columbia River watershed, David Moskowitz will take us on a journey exploring what “Renewal” looks like today for fish, wildlife, people, and landscapes. 🐟Register at the link in bio or at wildsalmon.org/renewal 📅April 30th at 6pm PT 💻 Zoom 🌊This webinar is co-hosted by @savewildsalmon @braidedriver @nwsteelheaders @nwfpacific @nationalwildlife 📸Photos by @moskowitz_david