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A growing movement is protecting the world’s most wild and beautiful places, united by a plan to protect the North Pacific’s best salmon rivers. We call these strongholds: Thriving river systems like the Copper, the Skeena, and Klamath. bit.ly/4lT4oiH

A big welcome to Julia Hill Sorochan, the new Executive Director of SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, a core @WildSalmonCntr partner in British Columbia. Click bit.ly/3GmceRo for more on Hill Sorochan and SkeenaWild’s next chapter.

Alaska’s Nushagak River, as seen from an orbiting Copernicus EU. Like the salmon it nurtures, this river, too, is very much alive. For decades, Wild Salmon Center and our partners have worked to safeguard this special place. wildsalmoncenter.org/campaigns/bris… (PC: @EuropeanSpaceAgency)

“We move these sheep every day.” On Oregon’s Elk River, fourth-generation sheep rancher Terry Wahl had a problem: a culvert was flooding his fields and ruining his livestock forage. Finding solutions that improve life for people and fish is what we do. wildsalmoncenter.org/coastal-restor…

From the fin of an Arctic grayling to the vast Alaskan watershed where we found her, strongholds like Bristol Bay are special. Irreplaceable. And core to values shared by millions of people across the North Pacific. wildsalmoncenter.org/campaigns/bris…

“This work has been the door to a larger world,” says Wild Salmon Center Senior Mongolia Consultant Dr. Saulyegul Avlyush, of a journey that’s taken her to remote rivers like the Üür and Delgermurun—and a career as an ecologist, biologist, and researcher. wildsalmoncenter.org/2025/04/29/mee…

Salmon are a keystone species. They hold entire ecosystems together. More than 137 species rely on salmon. Even trees grow bigger, fed by the nutrients that salmon bring from the sea. When we damage salmon rivers, we lose all of this. wildsalmoncenter.org/strategy

Good news for Washington State salmon recovery: this month, Governor Bob Ferguson has the opportunity to approve allocations of $9 million+ in reupped WA State Recreation and Conservation Office coastal habitat resilience grants—and $1.1. BILLION in fish passage and stream restoration funding. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…

Want healthier rivers for salmon and steelhead? Here’s your handy starter kit. Comes with: beaver recruitment, fish passage, habitat protection, wood installation, tidal reconnection, and riparian enhancement. Learn more at wildsalmoncenter.org/campaigns/coas….

Thanks to bipartisan legislators in Alaska, House Speaker Bryce Edgmon (I-Dillingham) and Andy Josephson (D-Anchorage), for introducing the #BristolBayForeverAct! The act would safeguard the #BristolBay Fisheries Reserve from large-scale metallic sulfide mining bristolbayforever.org/bristol-bay-fo…

BREAKING: Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed the state’s two-year operating budget into law, capping a difficult process that, in the end, delivered some good news for wild salmon and steelhead. Read more at fox13seattle.com/news/gov-fergu….

“If we don’t do this restoration work, our lower village is gonna be gone.” For Miss Ann Penn-Charles and the Quileute Tribe, a rise in flooding directly threatens the Tribal village of La Push. wildsalmoncenter.org/coastal-restor…

Oregon Coast coho salmon begin life in small tributaries. After emerging from gravel in early spring, fry spend the next year in freshwater—often sticking close to backwater pools, beaver ponds, lakes, and wetlands—before starting their ocean adventures.

“The North Umpqua is a very difficult river to fish,” Blaine says of his home river in Southern Oregon. “I’d been fishing for 30 straight days. And then I caught one. It grabbed at my heartstrings, this urge to want to protect it.” wildsalmoncenter.org/2025/05/30/mee…

A year ago, Iron Gate Dam was coming down right here on the Klamath River—the largest dam removal project in history. Today, the dam is gone, and Tribally-led revegetation projects are literally in full bloom. Click wildsalmoncenter.org/2020/10/22/fir… for our story on what dam removal means

Oregon’s century-old water laws weren’t written to keep water in rivers for fish. Today, water demand from cities and irrigators peaks right when Oregon’s streams are at their lowest. #OregonWaterPartnership oregonwaterpartnership.org

Six decades from now, Washington's Olympic Peninsula could have the coldest, cleanest wild salmon rivers in the Pacific Northwest. Click wildsalmoncenter.org/coldwaterconne… to learn how the #coldwaterconnection aims to protect these wild salmon strongholds for future generations

Join us live on Wednesday, July 16th at 12 pm Pacific as Dr. Will Atlas dives into SalmonVision, the collaborative project that's innovating how we monitor salmon runs in our first Headwaters: Side Channel webinar. Register today at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist….

On the Makah Reservation, a massive, failing World War II-era culvert is threatening a vital transportation route for the community. It also isn’t doing salmon any favors. The Makah Tribe & Wild Salmon Center aim to fix this military relic once and for all. bit.ly/4ecvRsb

Protect AND restore: We’re invested across the North Pacific: from pristine stronghold systems like #BristolBay to Oregon’s North Coast, where rivers like the Nehalem will shine brighter for salmon and steelhead with some help from restoration. wildsalmoncenter.org/strategy