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Extinction Emergency,
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​The President can save wild Snake River salmon and Southern Resident orcas.
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President Trump needs to hear from all of us NOW. Salmon and orcas need all hands on deck.

​Photo Credit: NOAA
Please ask President Trump to use his power as Commander in Chief of the Army to order the Army Corps of Engineers to breach the lower Snake River dams immediately.
Why would President Trump order lower Snake River dam breaching? Simple.
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Trump has the power as Commander in Chief.
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Trump wants to eliminate government waste. The dams are a huge waste of taxpayer and electricity ratepayer money. The dams are low hanging fruit.
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Even though the dams have outlived their usefulness, other politicians have been paralyzed or have refused to take action. Trump likes action.
Your message to President Trump can be something simple that concentrates on economics.
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Call and leave a Message at 202-456-1111 Open Tu-We-Th, 11-3 EST
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Write to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.
Wild Salmon Need a River. Critically Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales Need Salmon. This is an Extinction Emergency. Salmon and Southern Residents orcas are out of time.
​As always, feel free to choose additional recipients to receive your comments by making phone calls and / or sending messages to the following elected leaders and government officials. The more public feedback and encouragement they receive, the more likely it is that they will take action. For suggestions on what to say and talking points, see further down this page.
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Donald Trump
The White House
'Send a Message' not yet avail., 202-456-1111 Tu-We-Th, 11-3 EST
@WhiteHouse
@WhiteHouse
@whitehouse

Jaime Pinkham
Principal Deputy Asst. Secty. of the Army for Civil Works
202-761-1878

Patty Murray
US Senator, Washington
206-553-5545
202-224-2621 Senator@murray.senate.gov
@pattymurray
@pattymurray
@Senpattymurray
2988 Jackson Federal Building, 915 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA

Michael Connor
Asstistant Secty. of the Army for Civil Works
'Send a Message' Recipient = Civil Works
202-761-1878
michael.l.connor.civ@mail.mil
Headquarters U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 441 G Street NW Washington, DC 20314-1000
Talking Points
​Here are facts you can use to build your own message.
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Negotiating a settlement to breach the dams beginning this year in the litigation pending in Oregon in NWF v. NMFS could end the decades old litigation, and would recover Snake River salmon and steelhead, uphold indigenous people’s rights and culture, and help the Southern Resident Killer Whales avoid extinction.
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​The Snake River dams do not produce clean or green energy. That is a myth. The dams are destroying an ecosystem the size of Oregon and driving wild salmon and steelhead to extinction.
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More than 80,000 tons of CO2 equivalent of methane gas is produced each year by the four Lower Snake River dam reservoirs. Breaching the dams will create a free flowing river and will put an immediate stop to these potent greenhouse gas emissions.
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In the Columbia Basin, salmon and steelhead that must pass four dams in their migration to and from the ocean are surviving. Salmon and steelhead that must pass eight dams—the Snake River populations—are vanishing. The difference is the four lower Snake River dams.
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​A 2021 Nez Perce study reveals that 77% of Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon will be quasi-extinct, or presumed to have little chance of recovery, by 2025. The fish are out of time.
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​Lower Snake River dam breaching, along with other region-wide actions, must begin immediately. “Inaction will result in the catastrophic loss of the majority of Columbia River basin salmon and steelhead stocks.” (NOAA Fisheries, Draft—Rebuilding Interior Columbia Basin Salmon and Steelhead, July 11, 2022, p. 18.)
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​From insects to grizzly bears to Southern Resident Killer Whales, more than 130 species depend on the marine nutrients that wild salmon and steelhead provide.
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​“Perhaps the single greatest change in food availability for resident killer whales since the late 1800s has been the decline of salmon from the Columbia River basin.” (NOAA SRKW Recovery Plan Recovery Plan for Southern Resident Killer Whales, (Orcinus orca), National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region, Seattle, Washington (January 2008), p. II-82.)​​
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Cleaner, greener battery storage can replace the energy produced by the dams, if the energy needs to be replaced.
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Breaching the dams will revitalize 140 miles of riparian areas and restore large expanses of currently degraded forests, which will reestablish vast carbon sinks needed to reduce the impacts of climate change.

Frequently Asked Questions
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