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Save the Salmon, Take Down the Dams, River Rally

Youth-led rally & march highlights urgent need to stop salmon and orca extinction, remove lower Snake River dams

Rally for the River to Save Salmon and Orca

The conclusion remains: the Lower Snake River Dams have to be breached.
I am the President of Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment (NPtE). I along with Julian Matthews are the co-founders of NPtE. We got our start principally during the rolling blockade of Megaloads traversing the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in North Central Idaho. Megaloads are pieces of equipment too large for ordinary traffic and must receive special attention to travel over highways because of their size. Tribal members, members of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee (NPTEC), and the public objected to the megaloads going to Canada to the tar sands, and we objected to the callousness of the owners and transport company who subject dangerous extractive industries onto vulnerable communities, and we objected to the lack of consultation when the Reservation Community may have been impacted and the impact to the environment. The Reservation Community wants environmentally sound practices as more fitting of Community values. Read more…

Orcas, Salmon and Rivers – A Life Giving Linkage

Those Dammed Salmon — Set them Free!

Hungry, Hungry Whales

We Need Our Mighty Rivers to Save Salmon…And Whales
This is part one of a three-part series about orcas, salmon, and rivers.