News & Features

28 million acres of protected public land across Alaska could be opened to mining and oil and gas development.

On the Oregon and Washington Coasts, WSC is working to restore salmon and steelhead streams impacted by more than 160 years of logging, mining, road building, and other development. With significant federal and state funding now flowing to these projects, our work with coastal partners is delivering real benefits. 

Through community involvement, education and science-based strategies to identify and protect taimen strongholds, we have an important opportunity to protect this critically endangered, flagship species.

Wild Salmon Center’s Oregon Water Initiative is focused on improving Oregon’s water rights system and finding solutions that make sense for all water users, while protecting streamflow for the state’s prized wild salmon.

Spring Chinook are the early returners that are the beating heart of complex food webs that sustain species like the Salish Sea’s resident orcas and center salmon communities like the Yurok and Karuk people of Northern California. In the Pacific Northwest, spring Chinook transcend the iconic. They are our identity. And after 150 years of increasing, unprecedented threats, they are on the brink of extinction.

A proposed dam threatens Washington’s Chehalis River. But a more comprehensive approach to restoration would solve salmon habitat and flood problems.

Oregon’s logging rules for rivers and streams lag far behind all Northwest states. It’s time to modernize practices that are endangering salmon and dirtying drinking water.

The goal of the Coast Coho Partnership is to accelerate the recovery of Oregon’s two coast coho runs so that wild coho salmon can once again support recreational and commercial fisheries, promoting vibrant coastal communities.

WSC is working with partners on the Washington Coast to remove mini-dams and reconnect the coldest, cleanest rivers on the Olympic Peninsula–helping salmon and steelhead return home.

The Nehalem River is an Oregon Coast gem that includes critical habitat for some of the best wild salmon and steelhead runs left in the Lower 48. Wild Salmon Center is working to designate a gorgeous 17 mile-segment of this stronghold as a State Scenic Waterway.