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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Save Our Wild Salmon.The short explanation of this alert was: It's a new Congress - and we have a new chance to recover endangered Pacific Salmon in the Mighty Columbia & Snake Rivers! This spring, Representatives Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Thomas Petri (R-WI) introduced the bi-partisan Salmon Economic Analysis & Planning Act (SEAPA) in Congress with more than 65 House co-sponsors. Consider that: (1) we are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on failed federal "recovery" plans; (2) hundreds of scientists support removing four costly dams on the lower Snake River as perhaps the only way to restore this world-renowned fishery; (3) just THREE sockeye salmon survived to return to their Idaho spawning grounds in 2006; (4) up to 90% of Snake River salmon are killed by federal dams as they migrate to the ocean, and (5) the courts have ruled the last three federal salmon plans are illegal.
Isn't it time to invest in a real recovery plan that works? The Salmon Economic Analysis & Planning Act (SEAPA) will get us the information we need to understand the costs and benefits of removing the four lower Snake River dams, and to craft an effective recovery plan that restores healthy salmon and steelhead populations to our Northwest rivers and West Coast communities.
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