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Build political path to remove the four lower Snake River dams and replace services.
Convert legal pressure into durable federal action: appropriations, transition planning, and clear Congressional intent that makes breaching feasible. This strategy builds a coalition led by Tribes and backed by fishing, business, and community voices to fund replacement energy, irrigation, and transportation infrastructure and secure a real timeline.
Why this works
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Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
AdvocacyCoalition advancing abundant wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia–Snake Basin.
Save Our Wild Salmon (SOS) is a coalition of conservation, fishing, tribal, business, and clean-energy groups working to restore abundant, self-sustaining wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia–Snake River Basin through coordinated advocacy, policy change, and public engagement.
Mechanism
How Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition uses funding
- Define the specific appropriations, transition planning, and legislative outcomes needed.
- Align coalition partners on the replacement-services reality (energy, irrigation, ports, rail) and the treaty-rights stakes.
- Meet with lawmakers and staff and deliver coordinated outreach at key moments.
- Track and respond as budget and policy proposals move, adjusting the package to address opposition and implementation constraints.
- Close the loop with clear reporting on what changed and what comes next.
Partner notes
Partner notes coming soon.