Support the removal of lower four Snake River dams
Trout Unlimited partners with AFFTA on call for action
The Snake River basin represents at least 50 percent of the coldwater habitat for salmon and steelhead in the entire continental United States. Historically, nearly half of the salmon and steelhead that entered the mouth of the Columbia River returned to spawn in the Snake River and its tributaries.
Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID) has released a proposal that would restore Snake River salmon and rebuild Northwest infrastructure to ensure that the needs of irrigators, shippers and rural economies are met. This is a bold proposal, and a vital one.
Removal of these dams is essential to preventing the imminent extinction of wild salmon and steelhead in the Snake River basin.
Show Your Support for Wild Salmon and Steelhead
To demonstrate that industry is behind the Simpson proposal, AFFTA is working with Trout Unlimited to rally support for Rep. Simpson’s proposal. TU is in the process of drafting a logo page ad, as we successfully did in our campaign to stop the Pebble mine and protect Bristol Bay.
The first advertisement will print in the spring issue of TROUT magazine featuring all logos secured by March 19. After the launch in TROUT, we will work to share the ad broadly on social media and ask our signatories to do the same.
To sign up send an email with your logo to eric.crawford@tu.org. Act by March 19th to be included in the Spring Issue of TROUT.
Map courtesy of Yale School of the Environment