The Latest from ICL
Searching for Sockeye
Last week, ICL staff got a rare opportunity to join Shoshone-Bannock Tribal fish biologists for their annual redd counts at Pettit Lake.
Hope for a salmon solution in 2022
Recently, a pair of announcements from the Biden Administration and two Washington elected leaders renewed momentum around restoring the lower Snake River.
ICL calls on Washington leaders for decisive action — salmon, orca, and Tribal justice cannot wait
Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) released a joint statement formally announcing a “federal-state process on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin and the Pacific Northwest.”
ICL encouraged by Biden Administration announcement on Columbia-Snake River litigation pause
The Idaho Conservation League joined other plaintiffs, the Nez Perce Tribe, the State of Oregon, and federal defendants to file a request for a stay in the long-running litigation associated with the continued operation of Snake and Columbia River dams and their effect on threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead.
Idaho Conservation League statement on Governor Inslee and Senator Murray’s Salmon Action Plan
On October 14, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced that he and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) are actively working on a “Salmon Action Plan” process to save Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead from extinction.
Appeals court upholds decision that Sawtooth Valley water diversions harm salmon
With one of the worst steelhead runs on record, we all need to do our part to prevent iconic salmon and steelhead from going extinct.
THE CHARACTER OF MIKE SIMPSON’S COLUMBIA BASIN INITIATIVE
Pat Ford, ICL's former executive director, says Mike Simpson, a Republican from eastern Idaho, is the first Northwest member of Congress to take on the "beast" of dams and salmon in 41 years.
Boise River float to support lower Snake River dam breach
On August 7, conservation groups across the Northwest will host Rally for the River events to call for a comprehensive solution to salmon recovery that invests in the Northwest and breaches the four lower Snake River dams.
Wild salmon in hot water
Dams are the greatest contributor to heat pollution in the Columbia-Snake River system