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John,

In the last year, Tribes, policymakers from Washington and Oregon, and people have developed and begun to implement a comprehensive regional plan to restore Columbia-Snake River Basin salmon and steelhead populations.

Now, legislators in Washington, D.C. want to undo all that progress. They want to lock in a harmful and illegal plan produced during the first Trump administration.

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Our region is already working on the plan to replace existing Snake River dam services. The comprehensive plan creates jobs, invests in clean energy and modern infrastructure, and upholds treaty obligations. This plan ensures a more prosperous economy that benefits both communities and ecosystems.

However, in January, Sen. Jim Risch (ID) and Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-4) introduced legislation [[link removed]] that undermines important salmon recovery efforts in the Columbia-Snake River Basin. Reps. Baumgartner (WA-5), Fulcher (ID-1) and Bentz (OR-2) and Sen. Crapo (ID) co-sponsored this legislation.

If it becomes law, the legislation would maintain a costly status quo that increases risk and uncertainty for endangered salmon and steelhead and for our communities. This is just more of the same policy that has not worked: We have spent decades and billions on inadequate and illegal federal plans. And still, Snake River salmon and steelhead populations continue to decline toward extinction.

The Risch/Newhouse legislation offers zero solutions to these challenges. Instead, it increases harm and uncertainty. Urge your members of Congress to oppose this disastrous bill. [[link removed]]

Email your Congress members now! [[link removed]]

We can restore endangered fish populations and uphold Tribal Treaty rights through comprehensive basin-wide restoration that also invests in a clean, affordable, and resilient energy future for the Northwest!

Thank you for your advocacy,

Rein Attemann (he/him)

Puget Sound Campaign Senior Manager, Washington Conservation Action

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