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Protect Healthy Watersheds for Salmon FALL NEWSLETTER 2019 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Seattle, WA 12430 FALL NEWSLETTER 2019 305 N. 83rd Street, Seattle, WA 98103 END OF YEAR GOAL $80,000 Photo courtesy of NOAA NMFS AKFSC PROTECT HEALTHY WATERSHEDS CONTENTS Healthy Watersheds for Salmon and Orca FOR SALMON AND ORCA! Swimming Upstream: How Washington Wild is Advocating for a Right now, we are fighting a mining proposal in the Skagit Headwaters and advocating Healthy Future for Salmon | Salmon Journeys: Opportunities and for stronger protections for our salmon-bearing rivers and streams. Will you join us? Obstacles for Recovery | Conservation Voices: Protecting the Skagit WAWILD.ORG/EOY2019 | Trump Administration Targets Old Growth Forest Protections Photo courtesy of Ben Curran How Washington Wild is Advocating for a Healthy Future for Salmon Washington Wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in Washington State through advocacy, education and civic engagement. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Tom Uniack ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Evan Lepine Welcome from the Board The health of our watersheds is DEFEND OUR RIVERS third of the freshwater inputs PROGRAM MANAGER connected to the health of our salmon, AGAINST EMERGING THREATS to Puget Sound and is the only Laura Buckmaster Southern Resident orca, and us. At IN THE SKAGIT HEADWATERS river in the lower 48 states that As a native Washingtonian, I feel like the outdoors have always been part Washington Wild, the core of our work to supports healthy runs of all six of my identity. Growing up, my family prioritized spending time outside MEMBERSHIP & protect, defend, and restore wild places in Earlier this year, word spread species of wild pacific salmon. In – whether it was camping, cross country skiing, or hiking. Looking ENGAGEMENT MANAGER Washington directly benefits the recovery about a mining proposal in the 1978, approximately 158 miles of around at the incredible landscapes, it was always hard to imagine why Hillary Sanders of salmon and Southern Resident orca. headwaters of the iconic Skagit the Skagit and its tributaries — the we wouldn’t want to protect these wild places. With daily reminders of the growing River. The proposal targets an Sauk, Suiattle, and Cascade rivers impact of climate change, increasing area of largely intact watershed — were designated under the Wild Along with getting outside, my other passion in life is craft beer. In 2014, OFFICE MANAGER threats to our salmon-bearing rivers and surrounded by Manning and and Scenic Rivers Act. The Skagit my wife and I opened Watershed Pub and Kitchen, a local neighborhood Jordan French streams, and the disturbing reality of our Skagit Provincial Parks in was featured in the U.S. Postal watering hole where we pride ourselves on our high-quality beer declining orca population — the time to British Columbia, Canada. While Service Wild and Scenic River selection. Right after opening Watershed, we were introduced to BOARD OF DIRECTORS act is now. originating in BC, the Skagit stamp collection in 2019 and draws Washington Wild and the Brewshed® Alliance. Watershed Pub and Mark Walters, President River flows primarily through Washington Wild is proud to be a millions of locals and visitors to Brewshed Alliance – it was a natural connection! And so, I began my Fritz Wollett, Vice President Washington State, winding through grassroots conservation leader for 40 its banks each year for its pristine involvement with Washington Wild, including hosting annual Tap Harriet Bakken, the scenic North Cascades National Secretary years, and we look forward to carrying beauty and clear waters. Takeovers and joining the Board of Directors. Park, the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie Richard Lintermans, Treasurer this important work into 2020 and Washington Wild is currently I’m excited that this fall, Washington Wild teamed up with Bale Breaker National Forest, and through the Ben Curran beyond. As new challenges brought by a leading an international coalition Brewing Co. to create a special charity beer, Brewshed IPA, to raise funds renowned Skagit River Valley Andrew Escobar changing climate and destructive public of 140 partners, including Tribes, to protect healthy watersheds and critical salmon habitat. I’m especially before reaching Puget Sound. lands policy rise, so will we. Join us. First Nations, elected officials, thrilled that Brewshed IPA is brewed with Salmon-Safe certified hops Kevin Kelly The Skagit River provides one- local businesses, and conservation from Roy Farms. The Salmon-Safe certification ensures that farmers Raymond Kwan use resilience-building practices including protecting water quality, Maureen McGregor maintaining watershed health, and restoring habitat to keep streams Erin Miller Photo courtesy of Joe Foy healthy for salmon. Salmon are an indicator species, meaning their Sheryl Rothmuller “It would be hard to imagine a worse place for a mine than the health weighs heavily on the health of their environment. Roger Mellem, Board Skagit Headwaters or a mining company with a worse record From a business owner’s perspective, there is a lot of desire for a Member Emeritus sustainable product. People want to enjoy craft beer but also know to be involved than Imperial Metals. Even after the largest that they’re doing something good for the environment. Through tailings dam failure in Canadian history, spilling billions of liters the Brewshed Alliance, Washington Wild is tapping into a need for of mine waste, tailings and slurry-filled water into Quesnel collaboration between the conservation and craft beer communities. I’m Special thank you to Chris Bauer of Lake from their Mount Polley tailings dam in 2014, Imperial proud to use our business as a vehicle for philanthropy and advocate for Cascadia Photography for the cover photo. a wild, green, and more sustainable Washington. Metals has never faced charges or paid a penny in fines." Graphic Design by Kristen Proctor Cheers! Joe Foy, Co-Executive Director of Wilderness Committee Ben Curran 3 and recreation groups from both diversity of organizations uniting sides of the international border. around a call for reasonable reform Coalition efforts resulted in more had a powerful impact during the “We are successfully restoring salmon habitat in than 30 media stories on the Skagit 2019 Congressional session. big ways like the massive Elwha Dam removal, but Headwaters proposal in the U.S. Legislation passed the key we also need to be making sure the intact habitat and Canada and more than 6,000 committees but ran out of time emails sent to British Columbia in the remaining days of the 2019 we still have is permanently protected for the Premier John Horgan to deny the legislative session. Washington future. The Wild Olympics proposal does just that permit. Wild and coalition partners are by protecting wild rivers, salmon habitat, and the The permit applicant, Imperial working to renew the call for Metals Corporation, was reforms in January 2020 to make sources of clean water for future salmon runs and responsible for the infamous Washington rivers and streams a our Puget Sound orcas.” safer place for salmon to call home. Mount Polley mine disaster of 2014, Peter Bahls, Director of NW Watershed Institute one of the biggest environmental disasters in Canadian history. The PROTECT THE WILD risk of such a disaster in the Skagit, OLYMPICS FOR FUTURE home to Puget Sound’s healthiest GENERATIONS remaining runs of Chinook salmon — a vital food source for the In addition to defending salmon imperiled Southern Resident orca habitat and intact watersheds from — is simply unacceptable. active threats, we know it is equally important to proactively protect The approval of Imperial Metals’ Photo courtesy of Alex Winburg our remaining wild forests and permit application would blatantly rivers. Places like roadless areas ignore opposition by indigenous threatening rivers and streams Lewis River, Spokane River, and and land allocations under the nations on both sides of the across Washington State that you Puget Sound rivers such as the Northwest Forest Plan are too easily border. The Skagit originates in the have probably never heard of -- it’s Skykomish, Skagit, and Nooksack placed on the chopping block under unceded indigenous territory of called motorized suction dredge have been especially affected. the leadership of a President who the Upper Skagit, Stó:lō, Syilx, and mining and it is as horrible as is does not value these protections. Nlaka’pamux people, who have Scientific studies have shown sounds. accessed the forests, meadows, the impacts of suction dredging Washington Wild is a founding and streams surrounding the Miners in scuba gear use high include erosion and sedimentation, member of the Wild Olympics headwaters since time immemorial. powered suction motors to suck up mobilization of mercury and Campaign which is working to rocks, gravel, and sediment from other heavy metals, physical permanently protect more than Washington Wild continues to work river and stream beds in search impacts to fish eggs, juvenile fish, 126,000 acres of new Wilderness with coalition partners to push for of gold. What is left behind is a invertebrates, and other aquatic in the Olympic National Forest the denial of the mining permit river bottom that is completely organisms, destruction of habitat and more than 460 miles of Wild and work toward a long-term unrecognizable. features like large woody debris, and Scenic Rivers on the Olympic solution for protecting the Skagit and degraded riparian zones vital Peninsula. The legislation was Headwaters for salmon, orca, and Effective and commonsense to watershed health. introduced by Senator Patty Murray all of us downstream. rules limiting suction dredging (CD-WA) and Representative Derek in neighbor states of Oregon, In May of this year, Washington Kilmer (D-WA 06) earlier this California, and Idaho have made Wild drafted a letter signed by year and had a successful hearing PROTECT INVESTMENTS the practice increasingly common 84 conservation and recreation in the House Natural Resources in Washington State, placing groups, hunting and fishing IN SALMON RECOVERY Subcommittee.
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