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Urge your Member of Congress to sign the 'Salmon Letter' to President Obama!
Help Craft Real Solutions for Salmon, Communities, and American Taxpayers.
The fate of wild salmon and the Pacific Coast communities that depend upon them is in the hands of the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration. Your voice will help guide their actions.
Please take a moment to urge your Member of Congress to sign the House of Representatives 'Salmon Letter' to President Obama asking for his leadership to restore healthy, abundant populations of Northwest salmon and steelhead.
View the House of Representatives 'Salmon Letter' HERE.
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Subject: Please sign the letter House Salmon Recovery Letter.
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am writing you today to ask you to sign the bi-partisan letter sponsored by Representatives Blumenauer, Petri, and McDermott to President Obama regarding Northwest salmon recovery, family-wage jobs, and United States taxpayer dollars.
As you may know, the wild salmon and steelhead of the Columbia and Snake Rivers are a treasure to the nation and a key economic resource, providing thousands of jobs in scores of communities up and down the Pacific Coast and across the West.
Right now these fish and the communities they support are in serious trouble. After more than $8 billion in U.S. taxpayer and Northwest electric ratepayer money spent on ineffective salmon recovery measures, populations remain dramatically below the self-sustaining levels needed for recovery to abundance. It's time to put science first when it comes to decision-making about our nation's irreplaceable salmon resources, as the Blumenauer-Petri-McDermott letter states.
Americans deserve leadership and coordination from both the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress to ensure the recovery of wild salmon, the protection and creation of family-wage jobs, and the smart investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Once again I urge you to sign the letter on salmon recovery to President Obama currently circulating in the House of Representatives. Thank you.
Sincerely,
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March 02, 2009
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Wild salmon and steelhead of the Columbia and Snake Rivers are a treasure to our nation and the Northwest. Theirs is an epic journey - traveling from a mountain stream to the far reaches of the Pacific Rim, only to return to that very stream in which they were born.
Yet these majestic fish more than mere symbols. Salmon are essential to the economy, culture, and ecosystem of the Northwest. For centuries, wild salmon have supported rural communities and tribal cultures, stable jobs, world-renowned fishing opportunities and healthy food along the Pacific Coast and the inland West.
Salmon also act as a barometer for the Northwest ecosystem - their abundance reflects the health of our rivers and forests in which they flourish - their decline points to the challenges we face in restoring our backyards. In the Columbia-Snake basin the barometer indicates crisis. Today, all remaining runs of salmon and steelhead on the Snake River are in danger of extinction. The clock is ticking for these fish.
Right now, four costly, outdated dams on the lower Snake River are holding back solutions to the crisis affecting salmon, salmon-dependent communities, and taxpayers nationwide. These four dams severely limit access to thousands of miles of pristine habitat that provide salmon their best chance at survival in a warming climate. After over $8 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars wasted on ineffective and illegal programs, the effects of this crisis can be felt across the country. It is time to remove these costly dams to restore salmon, create new family-wage jobs, and promote the development of a much-needed clean energy economy.
It is not too late to restore a free-flowing Snake River and recover wild salmon and the jobs that they support. Congress needs to hear from you today! Urge your members of Congress to save our wild salmon by removing the four lower Snake River dams.
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