Save Our wild Salmon Coalition

Mission

Save Our wild Salmon Coalition (SOS) works to protect and recover endangered wild salmon and steelhead populations and their Northwest rivers and marine waters for the benefit of people and ecosystems. Our advocacy is focused on the Columbia-Snake River Basin, where we’re working to secure programs and policies that protect, restore, and reconnect the resilient rivers and habitats wild salmon need.

Making a Difference for Wild Salmon, Healthy Rivers, and Endangered Orcas

Founded in 1991, Save Our wild Salmon is a coalition of Northwest and national conservation organizations, commercial and sportfishing associations, businesses, clean energy and orca advocates, and river groups.

SOS educates, inspires, and mobilizes our supporters and the public to act on behalf of salmon and their rivers, and the ecosystems, economies, communities, and cultures that depend on them.

SOS is running an historic campaign to restore a free flowing lower Snake River in the Columbia Basin by removing its four costly federal dams – one of our nation’s great fish and wildlife initiatives today.

Removing these dams will restore 140 miles of mainstem river in southeast Washington State and reconnect endangered wild salmon and steelhead with more than 5,500 miles of protected, pristine habitat upstream. Restoring healthy, abundant Chinook salmon is also critical for the survival and recovery of Southern Resident orcas facing extinction.

SOS leads our member organizations, strategic allies, and citizen supporters - like you! - in coordinated legal, policy, communications, and organizing activities that are steadily building the political leadership needed to restore the lower Snake River and rebuild salmon abundance throughout the Columbia Basin, while investing in Northwest communities and economies.

SOS is working with Tribes, Indigenous NGOs, and other strategic allies to defend our gains, engage policymakers, and advance good policy for the benefit of wild salmon, healthy rivers, and orcas. We’re focusing on building people- and policymaker-power in the Northwest, working to defend against attacks from DC and build new regional champions for salmon & orca recovery and dam removal.

Thank you for your support! 
Please contact us to get more involved: www.wildsalmon.org