Like the central stone that holds together an arch, a keystone species holds together an ecosystem. That’s the role of wild salmon in the North Pacific.
This Montana-based foundation helps sportsmen and women give back by supporting the Wild Salmon Center’s work to protect great fisheries for future generations.
The Wild Salmon Center’s Cold Water Connection campaign is working to reopen key Olympic Peninsula rivers after 150 years of heavy logging and road-building.
Three strongholds for wild Oregon Coast coho—the Upper Rogue, Coos Bay, and Siletz—will benefit from a $2.3 million federal grant to restore habitat for this threatened keystone species.
The board directs Oregon’s forestry department to comply with state law, requiring it to study and create protections for this threatened keystone species.