In 2024, ICL accomplished great things for Idaho’s air, water, lands, wildlife, and the communities that rely on them. Our work touched all corners of the state, from the iconic …
Thirteen years after the first salmon returned to a free-flowing Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Coast, the first Chinook salmon swam upstream to reaches of the Klamath River that had …
Summary Fill out Washington’s Lower Snake River recreation survey and tell the government how YOU would recreate on a free-flowing lower Snake River. Even if you don’t recreate on the lower …
A draft report released by the federal Fish Passage Center (FPC) reiterates what has been clear for years: salmon and steelhead populations in the Snake River are in deep trouble …
Federal and state agencies, Tribal governments, and stakeholders are working together to plan how to replace the services of the four lower Snake River dams. These planning efforts came about …
We often say that, without the work of Tribes, Idaho’s wild salmon and steelhead would be gone. It’s easy to dismiss this as hyperbole, but in this case, it’s not …
Casual news readers this summer were greeted with cheerful headlines referring to a “record sockeye run” in the Columbia River. According to dam operators, more than 750,000 sockeye salmon (Onchorhynchus …
This September, ICL staff flew to our nation’s capitol with a group of advocates from the newly restructured Columbia Snake River Campaign to show unity in our push for a …
Over the past few months, Youth Salmon Protectors (YSP) have continued our tireless advocacy for the removal of the lower Snake River dams to save salmon and steelhead from extinction. …
