Stephen Pfeiffer 3/18/24 Stephen Pfeiffer 3/18/24

Columbia Basin Restoration Agreement Signing

IRU Staff 9/27/23 IRU Staff 9/27/23

Presidential Memorandum directs federal agencies to restore healthy and abundant salmon populations across the Columbia River Basin

Stephen Pfeiffer 9/1/23 Stephen Pfeiffer 9/1/23

Salmon campaign update, summer 2023

Stephen Pfeiffer 1/12/23 Stephen Pfeiffer 1/12/23

BPA’s Continued Underfunding of Salmon Recovery Work is Business as Usual

Stephen Pfeiffer 12/16/21 Stephen Pfeiffer 12/16/21

Columbia Basin Collaborative Meeting Recap

The Columbia Basin Collaborative’s (CBC) Integration and Recommendations Group held its first official meeting late last month virtually over Zoom. This was the first of a year-long series of meetings focused on regional salmon recovery that originated from a four-state agreement signed last fall.

Nic Nelson 10/27/21 Nic Nelson 10/27/21

New Momentum Builds for Idaho Salmon Recovery

However, recent activity has not only renewed hopes of restoring the lower Snake River to a free-flowing river and saving endangered salmon and steelhead, but has signaled that “The times they are a-changing.”

Nic Nelson 8/25/21 Nic Nelson 8/25/21

Simpson's Columbia Basin Initiative contains central tenets of Democratic Party, yet Democratic leadership remains silent

Environmental restoration, social justice, clean-energy measures, and endangered species recovery. These sound like pillars of the Democratic platform, yet it’s an Idaho Republican championing these efforts in the Pacific Northwest.

Stephen Pfeiffer 6/21/21 Stephen Pfeiffer 6/21/21

Columbia Basin Collaborative: The process & what it means

The Columbia Basin Collaborative (CBC) held a second workshop this month to inform stakeholders of the trajectory for the newly formed regional salmon recovery process. The collaborative intends to develop a series of recommendations for lawmakers, meaning a lot of ‘process’ and lack of bold action.

Nic Nelson 5/20/21 Nic Nelson 5/20/21

Losing through Winning

It is our uncompromising mission to ensure that salmon and steelhead do not go extinct. The science, empirically and unequivocally, shows us that the required path to recovery of Idaho’s salmon and steelhead is through restoring the Snake River to a free-flowing, natural river. We will go to court to ensure that our fish are not relegated to a history book, but let me be clear, we would rather be working together with the Tribes, farmers, and regional representatives on the proposal from Congressman Simpson that benefits each stakeholder group. A path forward that benefits every Idahoan has been offered, and it is our hope that we can move forward within this framework to achieve long-term salmon recovery and regional prosperity.

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