2020 Annual Report: Breaking Through

Wild Salmon Center 2020 Annual Report: Breaking Through a letter from the president Breaking Through Between wildfires, the pandemic, and historic economic, At WSC, we talk about building the kind of local “immune political, and social disruptions, 2020 was one of the most response” infrastructure that enables watershed communities challenging years that the Wild Salmon Center has ever to repel threats from dangerous development. This immune experienced. And yet, 2020 also proved to be a year of response went national, and it forced the Army Corps to give breakthroughs. Pebble the scrutiny it deserved. Ultimately, the agency denied the permit: a rare instance of the Alaska office stopping a large In early 2020, our decades-long battle with the Oregon timber natural resource development project. Now, the stage is set to industry over adequate stream protections came to a head. secure permanent protections for Bristol Bay. With high stakes—namely, the ecological health of 40,000 miles of streams and rivers flowing through billions of dollars How did we make these monumental strides? of standing timber on private lands—WSC’s Bob Van Dyk led a Our strength comes from clarity of mission, a focus on science, coalition of conservation groups into negotiations with major and a close network of collaborators that includes prominent state and national timber companies, mediated by Democratic Republicans, Democrats, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and Governor Kate Brown. The goal is to complete a statewide allies from the US, Canada, and Russia. Indeed, the diversity of private forestland conservation agreement and have it codified viewpoints on our board and among our supporters is one of our by early 2022. In June 2021, I welcomed both sides for the first key assets. post-vax in-person meeting at our offices: a sight I couldn’t have imagined back in the 1990s, when Bob and I launched this fight. That diversity is bonded by a shared belief: that we must leave our children and grandchildren a network of large, intact, thriving Then in August, it looked certain that the U.S. Army Corps of watersheds for wild salmon, trout, and steelhead. Because our Engineers would approve a permit to construct Pebble Mine in salmon strongholds are not only critical centers of biodiversity the headwaters of Alaska’s Nushagak and Kvichak rivers—the and food security, but refuges from the stresses of modern life, latest development in a 15-year campaign to protect Bristol and places that preserve our ancient—and irreplaceable—link to Bay led by Alaska Natives and a broad coalition of salmon the natural world. champions and advocates, including WSC. Thank you, friends, partners, and supporters, for working with us Within weeks of the expected permit approval, I met Nick to protect these beautiful rivers and all the species they support, Ayers, a sportsman and influential Republican. Nick agreed especially in this year of extraordinary challenges. that Pebble was an unacceptable threat to Bristol Bay and asked if he could help. What happened next is one for the ages. Between outspoken advocacy from Nick and other prominent Republicans, Democratic leadership, and the relentless work of the Bristol Guido Rahr Bay Defense Fund coalition and WSC’s Alaska team, Pebble President and Chief Executive Mine became the biggest environmental issue in Washington in a matter of weeks.

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3 Alaska Political leaders join federal scientists in speaking up for Bristol Bay, and the Western Pacific U.S. Army Corps denies Pebble Mine a key federal permit (p. 6).

Oregon Coast WSC leads a conservation team into historic negotiations to protect salmon and other species on 11 million RUSSIA acres of private forestland (p. 8). Utkholok & Kvachina Bering Sea A 70-year plan for the Tillamook and

Clatsop State Forests moves forward, Maya Sea of Okhotsk KAMCHATKA with protections for priority rivers Shantar like the Nehalem, Salmonberry, and Islands Kol & Kilchis (p. 9). Kekhta Zhupanova Tug ur Thirty Coast Coho Partnership projects are underway on the Or- Nimelen Dagi Opala egon coast, with nearly $3 million Nabil Wild Vostochny Salmon channeled into the restoration of six KHABAROVSK REGION Territory coastal watersheds in the last three Koppi years (p. 14). SAKHALIN ISLAND

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British Columbia Progress across the Pacific WSC scientists and partners are 2020: a breakthrough year for salmon advocates, delivering major wins for mapping the DNA of hundreds of wild Sea of Pacific salmon and steelhead runs in Japan clean water, healthy forests, and wild salmon and steelhead in stronghold rivers. order to ensure that harvest preserves salmonid genetic diversity (p. 10).

Washington Coast WSC is working with the state to North America include productivity, distribution, and population diversity in wild steelhead management (p. 12). ALASKA Governor Inslee intercedes to ask for Susitna serious alternatives to the proposed 24-story Chehalis Dam on one of the state's best remaining salmon and Nushagak & steelhead rivers (p. 13). Kvichak The Cold Water Connection campaign continues to make progress, with 11 culvert projects reconnecting 16 river miles (p. 13). Bristol Bay CANADA

Skeena Russian Far East BRITISH COLUMBIA A full 70 percent of Kamchatka Dean salmon fisheries by volume are now either certified by the Marine Stewardship Council or actively in pre-certification (p. 16).

Olympic Peninsula WASHINGTON & Chehalis Science and Policy Nehalem & Tillamook At a time of escalating drought, our Siletz OREGON Siuslaw new Oregon Water Initiative puts Progress across the Pacific Coos & Elliott State Forest water rights front and center (p. 18). N. Umpqua Rogue Elk Why we must give spring Chinook 2020: a breakthrough year for salmon advocates, delivering major wins for Illinois a fighting chance on rivers like the Smith CALIFORNIACALIFORNIA clean water, healthy forests, and wild salmon and steelhead in stronghold rivers. Klamath Klamath and Snake (p. 20). SF Eel/Mattole UNITED Salmon strongholds and priority lands STATES for carbon sequestration (p. 22).

5 A Dramatic Defense of Bristol Bay, ALASKA Bristol Bay Entering summer 2020, our battle to defend Bristol Bay looked bleak. Pebble Mine, which would tear a gash through the headwaters of North America’s greatest salmon stronghold, seemed headed for certain federal approval. Then in late July, as a U.S. Army Corps decision neared, we joined with Native leaders and fishermen at the Bristol Bay Defense Fund on a media campaign that quickly became a national firestorm. The cold, hard facts about this proposed mine played over and over on the airwaves and in prominent social media feeds: hundreds of miles of salmon streams and thousands of acres of wetlands to be destroyed in the Nushagak and Kvichak watersheds, with billions of tons of toxic waste left there forever. After outreach by Wild Salmon Center and partners, prominent Democrats and Republicans began calling for Bristol Bay’s protection. Then, as new evidence emerged about Pebble’s backroom dealings with Alaskan politicians, the state’s two U.S. senators turned definitively against the mine. “No Pebble Mine,” tweeted Sen. Dan Sullivan, in the midst of a fall reelection fight. Cassie Bergman Cassie It was a stunning bipartisan rebuke of Pebble, and clear consensus for protecting Bristol Bay. Political leaders finally aligned with federal scientists, who had unanimously criticized Pebble as a threat to Bristol Bay. In November, the Army Corps denied Pebble its key federal Clean Water Act permit. With bipartisan support for protecting Bristol Bay, the Biden Administration can—without controversy—now direct the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the mine for good. This is the chance for WSC and our allies to bring the Pebble campaign to its conclusion. We need one more resounding victory. It’s now time for the Biden Administration to permanently “ protect Bristol Bay against the threat of mining." —WSC Alaska Program Director Emily Anderson 6 Pebble: the Last Chapter The Call to Protect Bristol Bay, released this year by Bristol Bay Tribes and local communities, asks the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act to veto the Pebble Mine. The Call also asks Congress to establish the Bristol Bay National Fisheries Area, which would restrict future hard rock mining in the watersheds draining into Bristol Bay. WSC is proud to stand with the Tribes and communities of Bristol Bay, and is actively working to support permanent protections for the region’s rivers in Washington, DC.

ECONOMICS OF BRISTOL BAY 57% of the world’s sockeye salmon catch

$990m in economic activity in Alaska and $800m in the Pacific Northwest $75m in sportfishing tourism

7 Cassie Bergman Cassie 8 for wildfishand allwholovetheminOregon. trout streams would beaonce-in-a-generation leapforward timberland and tensofthousandsmiles ofsalmonand Achieving thisoutcomeacross 11millionacresofprivate threatened salmonandother aquaticspecies. the planforfinalapproval, ensuring itwillhelprecover office. Federal fishandwildlifeagencies wouldthenreview hopefully thensignedbyGov. Browninherlastyear rules totheOregonLegislatureforapprovalinearly2022, Both negotiatingpartieshopetosendtheirproposednew temperatures viableforsalmon,evenwithclimatechange. Oregon’s entirestreamnetworkwillhelpkeepwater And scienceshowsthatadequateshadingthroughout to drinkingwaterandhabitatqualityforfishwildlife. often originatingonsteepslopes,thatarebigcontributors buffers alongfeederstreams—thosesmalltributaries, streams andrivers,ourteamaimstosecureforested In additiontowinningstrongerprotectionsalongsalmon Brown andherstaff. this February 2021,undertheleadershipofGovernorKate prepared extensivelyforareturntothenegotiatingtable June 2020,WSC’sBobVan Dykandhisconservationteam Conservation Plan.Following enablinglegislationpassedin private forestland,aspartofanewstatewideHabitat new protectionsforsalmonandaquaticspecieson agreement withOregontimbercompaniestonegotiate Last year, Wild SalmonCenter achievedabreakthrough come withclimatechange. to therisingtemperaturesandlowerstreamflowsthat the West Coast, Oregon’ssalmonrunsremainvulnerable the state.Andwithweakeststreamsideprotectionson large tractsofprivateforestland—11millionacresacross from theRoguenorthtoTillamookBay, allflowthrough steelhead runsintheLower48.ButOregon’sstrongholds, some ofthestrongestremainingwildsalmonand The temperaterainforestsoftheOregonCoast harbor Getting Down to Business Better Oregon Forestry:

Ken Morrish “ North UmpquaRiver, strongholds." real Oregon durabilityfor provide would protections forestry Combined with wildprotections fish and restoration work, —WSC Oregon and California Policy Director Bob Van Dyk OREGON A 70-year Plan for the Tillamook For 20 years, WSC has been fighting to protect salmon streams in the Tillamook Rainforest, a globally important salmon stronghold anchored by 500,000 acres of state forestland in Tillamook and Clatsop Counties, less than an hour west of downtown Portland. Success is closer than ever. On October 6, 2020, the Oregon Board of Forestry voted unanimously to move ahead with a plan to protect roughly half of the state's forestland in stream and forest reserves for 70 years. That includes significant 11 million acres: total new conservation areas tied to stronghold rivers including private timberland in Oregon. the Nehalem, Kilchis, and Salmonberry. Combined with a successful private forests plan, wild fish protections, and our restoration work led by WSC, strong state forest protections will help ensure durable protections for the region’s six stronghold rivers. Stay tuned for ways to help our campaign push this plan over the finish line.

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Miami R. Kilchis R. Wilson R. Forest Grove Portland Tillamook Trask R. Tillamook R. Cape Lookout 9 Smarter Fisheries to Protect Dean River, BRITISH COLUMBIA Wild Runs in B.C. West of Vancouver Island, a commercial fisher catches a bright Chinook salmon. We’re in British Columbia’s territorial waters. But are these fish...Canadian? Until recently, fishers operating here—or in Haida Gwaii, Alaska, or off the Washington Coast—would have little way of knowing. Marine fisheries are “mixed-stock,” with both vulnerable and healthy salmon runs intermingling during coastal migrations. A fisheries analysis from WSC Salmon Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas finds that more than 70 percent of the marine Chinook salmon catch from Southeast Alaska to Oregon’s Cape Falcon is harvested in mixed-stock fisheries, with almost 40 percent caught outside their home state or province. For instance, in recent years, an average 45 percent of the total Chinook run to Washington’s Queets River has been harvested in Alaska and B.C., and 33.5 percent of Skagit River Chinook. “Salmon traverse multiple jurisdictions; that’s a fundamental truth,” says Dr. Atlas. “We want to understand where they’re caught, to support the larger conversation

about how and when we fish.” Jeremy Koreski That's the aim of the B.C. wild salmon ID project, a genetic library from WSC scientists and partners that maps the DNA of hundreds of wild Pacific salmon and steelhead runs, starting with B.C.’s Central Coast. This tool could inform a new dialog on fishery refinements to better safeguard vulnerable stocks. Addressing the harvest of vulnerable runs is key to protecting the genetic diversity and unique survival strategies of wild salmon and steelhead, both fundamental to the species’ long-term survival. “This will be the ultimate shared resource for fishery assessment,” says Dr. Atlas. “Because smarter salmon Marine fisheries that protect wild salmon diversity start with fishing starts with good data and a seat at the table for “ good data and a seat at the table for everyone." everyone.” —WSC Salmon Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas 10 Peter Bohler to protectthesewatersheds.” “We havethetools,”Knoxsays.“Nowweneedtousethem third-party environmentalcertifications. timber processingandIndigenous-ledlanduseplanningto But a2020SkeenaWildstudyofferssolutions,fromlocal outsourcing, andbadlandstewardship. down towaterlines,whilemarketforcespushoverharvest, presses infromtheeast,pooroversightletsoperatorslog the Gitxsan and Lake Babine First Nations. But as Big Timber home tofamoussteelheadlodgesandsockeyefisheriesfor A placetostartistheBabineRiver, aSkeenatributarythat’s of WSCpartnerSkeenaWild. salmon strongholds?Yes, saysGregKnox,ExecutiveDirector Can sustainableforestpracticescoexistwithCanada's Safeguarding the Babine Watershed 40% mixed-stock fisheriesoutsidetheirhomestateorprovince. of North American Chinook salmon are caught in ofNorthAmericanChinooksalmonarecaughtin 11 12 up andprotect thisresourceforfuturegenerations.” Helsley says.“Butitwouldbe morepainfulnottostep “Change ishardandnewregulations canbepainful,” clues forrebuildingpopulation diversityandabundance. doesn’t readilyrevealthesechanges, whichareimportant dant thantheywereinthemid-20th century. Moderndata the riverfamous.Theyarenowlikely70percentlessabun - have lostseasonalrunsofHohwintersteelheadthatmade torical dataanalysisbyWSCandpartnersshowsthatwe our senseofhowwildrunsarefaring.For example,his- recent datatoassesssteelheadreturns,andthatcanskew conservation science.Currently, manymanagersuseonly To supportthatdialog,WSCisbringingawiderlensto management mindsetbeyondsimpleabundance.” is ourlastchancetogetitright.To finallyexpandour for wildOlympicPeninsulasteelhead,”saysHelsley. “This “What wedointhenextfewyearswillmakedifference overdue, saysWSCWashington DirectorJessHelsley. diversity. Thisbroaderviewofsteelheadhealthislong ment toincludeproductivity, distribution,andpopulation stakeholders, WDFWisexpandingitswildfishmanage- Now, afterdialog withWildSalmonCenter andother bait fishing. all coastalrivers,includingabanonfishingfromboatsand WDFW issuedemergencyregulationsforsteelheadingon fall belowescapementgoalsforthefifthstraightseason, days. AndinDecember2020,withmanyrunsprojectedto steelhead declinesbyvoluntarilycuttingtheirownfishing recent years,coastalTribes haveproactivelyrespondedto But Washington steelheadersnowfacehardchoices.In and stillsustainpopulations. is abundance:howmanyfish—intheory—canbeharvested the Washington DepartmentofFish&Wildlife,thebyword When itcomestosalmonandsteelheadmanagementat Olympic Peninsula Steelhead Stepping Up for Wild

John Gussman “ Hoh River, chance togetit right." forence wild Olympic Peninsula steelhead.is our This last What we do in next couple the ofyears will differ make the - WASHINGTON —WSC Washington Jess Director Helsley restoration projects federal agenciesforcoastal reconnecting 16rivermiles with ourpartners 8 $13.1m 11 CONNECTIONS COLD WATER project proposals developed projectproposalsdeveloped culvert projects culvertprojects won from state and wonfromstateand

Alamy new AquaticSpeciesRestorationPlan. ing groundonhabitatrestorationworkthroughthebasin’s We’re alreadyground-truthingsmartersolutions,andbreak- petitions, Gov. InsleeorderedOCBtoconsideralternatives. results. InJuly, followingadelugeofpubliccommentsand vation, ChehalisRiverAlliance,andWSCcommunity—got Indian Nation,Confederated Tribes oftheChehalisReser- This pastspring,apressurecampaign—fromtheQuinault to fixbasin-wideflooddamage. steelhead habitat,costupwardof$1billion,andyetdolittle would risksomeofthestate’sbestremainingsalmonand 24-story damintheChehalisRiver. Butifbuilt,thedam pushed oneideatoaddressflooddamagereduction:a For years,Washington’s OfficeoftheChehalisBasinhas Governor Intercedes Dam Chehalis in 13 Restoring Oregon Coast Cedar Creek, OREGON Coho: the Multiplier Effect On Cedar Creek, a tributary of Oregon’s Elk River, a beaver dam blocked a culvert. Terry Wahl spent much of last summer digging it out. Each time, the beaver came back. Some might reach for a shotgun. But Wahl, a fourth- generation sheep rancher, prefers long-term fixes that don’t fight nature. “What it comes to is, get the water moving and beavers can stay,” he says. So he called up Curry Watersheds Partnership, one of the organizations in the Wild Salmon Center-managed Coast Coho Partnership, which develops and implements targeted, science-based action plans that accelerate the recovery of Oregon’s two coast coho runs. Today, a bridge crosses the free-flowing creek, now reconnected with a side channel to a deep, reed-filled pond the Wahls call their “fish hotel.” It’s not just a love of wildlife that motivates Wahl; since fencing off the fish streams on his property, he’s actually seen a four-fold increase in sheep production, which he attributes to healthier pastureland.

The Wahls’ culvert removal, which also included almost Brian Kelley a mile of instream habitat restoration, is one of 30 Coast Coho Partnership projects currently underway on the Oregon coast. Since 2018, WSC has channeled $2.8 million into the restoration of six coastal watersheds, repairing instream, floodplain, and estuarine habitats while generating hundreds of seasonal and full-time jobs that boost local economies. “Both fish and working landowners benefit from restoration work,” says WSC Coastal Program Director Mark Trenholm. “But the ultimate payoff lies in the future, as these projects accelerate the coast-wide recovery of Oregon’s wild coho runs, rebuilding our commercial, recreational, and Tribal fisheries.” Both fish and working landowners benefit from restoration “ work. But the ultimate payoff lies in the future—in rebuilding our fisheries.”—WSC Coastal Program Director Mark Trenholm 14 Projects in Progress West Fork Evans Creek, Rogue River. Since 2018, WSC and the Applegate Partnership and Watershed Council have worked with BLM and three private timber companies to restore a contiguous 11-mile stretch of West Fork Evans Creek, habitat known to be essential for spawning and rearing coho. Brian Kelley Upper Indian Creek, Siuslaw River. From 2019 to 2020, we worked with partners including the Siuslaw Watershed Council and U.S. Forest Service to place 670 logs along 10 miles of high- value tributaries in the Upper Indian Creek basin of the Siuslaw watershed, adding stream complexity for rearing juvenile coho. Brian Kelley Tioga Creek Watershed, Coos Bay. In 2020, we worked with the Coos Watershed Association, Cedar Creek,OR NOAA, and other partners to prioritize and fund a new slate of restoration projects to restore degraded mainstems below the basin's highly productive upper tributaries. The mainstem Tioga Creek, for example, will receive project funding for a large wood

installation in 2022. Brian Kelley

$2.8 million: Funds channeled by WSC into Oregon coast watershed restoration since 2018.

15 Brian Kelley Kamchatka’s Sustainable Sakhalin Island, RUSSIA Fisheries Concept: Proven 70% of Kamchatka For more than 25 years, Wild Salmon Center and our salmon fisheries by volume partners have sought to protect the pristine wild salmon, are now fully MSC-certified steelhead, trout, and char rivers of Kamchatka. or in pre-certification. When we started this work, poachers were nabbing about half of the peninsula’s returning salmon. Mining interests encroached on the banks of salmon rivers like the Kikhchik and Icha. Hatcheries were gaining a foothold. But WSC’s Russian allies are pushing back. In recent years, the number of Kamchatka hatcheries has shrunk, bucking national trends. Pending federal legislation might revive headwaters-to-ocean salmon protections (see sidebar). And a sustainable fisheries strategy designed and imple- mented by WSC in 2004—and since built upon by partners Ocean Outcomes and ForSea Solutions—is flourishing. According to a recent ForSea Solutions report, 70 percent of Kamchatka salmon fisheries by volume are now either certified by the Marine Stewardship Council with annual third-party auditing, or are actively in pre-certification. “Turning the ship in the Russian Far East has been a decades-long project,” says WSC Western Pacific Director Sakhalin Environment Watch Mariusz Wroblewski. “We now have proof of concept that our long-term focus on Kamchatka can achieve important results for wild salmon.” Poaching is declining in Kamchatka, and the peninsula's MSC-certified fisheries are continuing to enhance transparency through rigorous chain-of-custody requirements. For fishers, the reward is access to new international markets for products from MSC-certified fisheries. It’s a win-win: for local communities, and for Kamchatka's productive wild runs of Chinook, chum, sockeye, and pink salmon. “Years ago, we engaged Kamchatka’s commercial fisheries in this sustainability project,” says Wroblewski. “Today we We now have proof of concept that our long-term focus on can state without doubt that market incentives in fisheries “ strongholds like Kamchatka can achieve dramatic results for wild can lead to real conservation outcomes.” salmon." —WSC Western Pacific Program Director Mariusz Wroblewski 16 17 17

KAMCHATKA Iturup Island SAKHALIN MSC Certified Fishery Improvement Projects Wild Salmon Territory says WSC’s Mariusz Wroblewski. “No one could mine, log, “No one Mariusz Wroblewski. says WSC’s near them.”or develop 1990s, development, mining, and timberBut starting in the theencroach on salmon watersheds like interests began to could soon end, as and Langheri. That encroachment Tugur sweeping legislation supportedthe government considers Association, a key Wild Salmonby the Russian Salmon Fishery Federal The legislation would create partner. Center commercial salmon watersheds,Protection Zones around and resource extraction. banning development Russian salmon fish- “This would offer protected status to “It’s the most promising sign yet of eries,” says Wroblewski. salmon.” domestic momentum to safeguard wild Sweeping Salmon Russia for Protections with a strategic resource, era, salmon were In the Soviet by the state. fishing controlled rivers,” Russia’s salmon huge forests lining “There were FISHERIES KHABAROVSK Data Source: ForSea Solutions Water: the Third Pillar of Oregon Coast COHO Our Oregon Work When it comes to Oregon's rivers, the image often touted in tourism videos is one of endless cascades of clean, cold water. But Oregon’s water resources are far less abundant than many Oregonians want to acknowledge, much less address—especially in this time of escalating drought. “Oregon’s water rights system wasn’t built for today’s complex reality, with persistent drought, climate change, population shifts, and increasingly diverse water demands,” says Caylin Barter, WSC Water Policy Program Manager. “If Oregonians value a thriving economy, vibrant communities, and strong wild salmon runs, we must approach water like the crisis it’s become.” With over-allocated water rights on most Oregon rivers and streams, summer is an increasingly dangerous time for salmon and steelhead in rivers like the Rogue, Umpqua, and Siuslaw. As flows on tributary streams are siphoned off for other water uses, juvenile fish can get stranded in overheated shallows, while home-migrating adults face disease, dry river beds, and other barriers. Water rights issues impact everyone from farmers and

anglers to cities and industry. Finding a better balance Alamy is the work of our new Oregon Water Initiative. We're working in the state capitol to build support for agencies to monitor and manage water supplies, identify key salmon streams that are overdrawn, and incentivize water users to restore those stream flows. Achieving a philosophical shift in Oregon’s approach to water rights is a third, critical pillar of our work here, alongside forestry reforms and coastal salmon habitat restoration and protection. “We have to be proactive about understanding, protecting, and managing this resource,” says Barter. “Because everything—our environment, our economy, our culture, If Oregonians value a thriving economy, vibrant communities, our bodies—it all runs on water.” “ and strong wild salmon runs, we must approach water like the crisis it’s become." —WSC Water Policy Program Manager Caylin Barter 18 Key Strategies for Watershed Resilience

Protect cold water Restore and Protect off-channel, flows and cold water increase flows in wetland, and estuary refuge areas tributaries habitats

50 120 40 100 30 80 20 60 10 40 0 20 10 10 20 30 20 40 40 50 60 °C °F Illustrations by Elizabeth Morales

Restore incised Protect healthy Restore stream channels and reconnect vegetated stream corridors with greatest rivers and streams with corridors and potential to lower their floodplains upland forests water temperatures

Across the state, most rivers and streams have been over- allocated, meaning water rights exceed actual streamflow during much of the year. This can dramatically impact places like Trail Creek in the Rogue River Basin (below).

Winter Flow vs Summer Flow

19 Brian Kelley The Key in the Code: How Spring CHINOOK to Save Spring Chinook Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a tiny genetic mutation changed everything for one Pacific salmon species. GREB1L, the DNA variation that dictates early freshwater return, drives spring Chinook to hopscotch high up winter-swollen rivers to claim coldwater habitat that other salmon can’t reach. This unique genetic advantage has helped spring Chinook thrive despite ice ages and floods, predators and natural disasters. In the process, the first-returning salmon has become the beating heart of food webs that sustain orcas and grizzlies, Indigenous communities and vast inland forests. Now, spring Chinook’s genetically-directed early migrations could help the species adapt to rapid climate change. But first, we must remove the barriers blocking their success. For 150 years, humans have dammed, logged, dewatered, and overfished the West Coast’s spring Chinook rivers. The result is a species on the brink. On the Snake and Columbia Rivers, total returning wild Chinook numbers have fallen 80 percent in the last two decades. In California, spring Chinook are now extinct on the Shasta John McMillan and Scott Rivers. On the Salmon River, a key Klamath tributary, just 106 spring Chinook were counted in 2020. But there is hope. Momentum is growing for bold actions —from tearing down Klamath and Snake dams to piloting selective fishing tools like weirs, wheels, and pound nets. Meanwhile, WSC is providing strong scientific evidence to state and federal agencies to expand spring Chinook’s endangered status and unlock full legal protections. “If we act fast, we can give spring Chinook a fighting chance on rivers like the Klamath and Snake,” says WSC Science Director Dr. Matt Sloat. “These are hardy, ancient survivors. What they need from us is time and space to Spring Chinook are hardy, ancient survivors. What they need flex their natural advantage.” “ from us is time and space to flex their natural advantage." —WSC Science Director Dr. Matt Sloat 20 Bring Down the Dams For too long, massive dams on the Klamath and Snake Rivers have blocked spring Chinook from critical cold water habitat. On the Klamath, a decades-long campaign for dam removal is back on track and possible as soon as 2023. Wild Salmon Center is working with the Karuk Tribe, local organizations, and scientists to ensure that the Klamath’s spring Chinook runs earn federal protections and endure to anchor recovery after the dams fall. On the Snake, WSC is working with stakeholders and Congressional leaders to shape a legislative path forward for dam removal and investments in regional economies.

19%: Annual decline in returning Snake River spring Chinook over the last decade.

21 Alamy Sea of Okhotsk Bering Sea

RUSSIA KAMCHATKA

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SAKHALIN ISLAND Protecting Salmon Strongholds, Slowing Climate Change

As international efforts to reverse climate change gather new urgency, land- based strategies could play a major role. In the United States, improvements in land management could absorb up to a fifth of annual emissions—the equivalent to taking all cars and trucks off the road—according to a 2018 study led by The Nature Conservancy. JAPAN Wild Salmon Center is working to harness this tool to protect salmon Sea of stronghold ecosystems in two ways: by conserving large natural landscapes Japan that already sequester carbon, and by restoring salmon watersheds in ways that increase their carbon-sequestering abilities. With our colleagues at Ecotrust, we’re mapping the North Pacific and getting a clearer picture of the strong overlap between salmon ecosystems and priority lands for carbon sequestration. This map is organized into carbon storage categories that represent roughly five equal-sized land distributions.

22 Protecting important salmon “ watersheds should be part of a

ALASKA land-based climate strategy." —WSC Executive Vice President Sara LaBorde

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The most important lands for carbon storage—those storing more than 110 Only 20% of land has WASHINGTON tons of carbon per hectare—are marked in deep green. carbon stores of more than 110 tons per hectare. In Khabarovsk, where WSC’s Russian partners are working to create a network OREGON of protected areas for salmon and Siberian taimen, boreal forests and their underlying peatlands represent unusually high carbon storage potential. TOTAL CARBON (tons/ha) Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, home to the world’s largest run of sockeye salmon 110 - 478 More carbon (and the threat of Pebble Mine), is a massive tract of largely undeveloped 88 - 110 carbon-absorbing wetlands and peatlands the size of Wisconsin. 74 - 88 Less carbon CALIFORNIA The remaining temperate rainforest rivers in coastal Alaska, British Columbia, 52 - 74 Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and the Oregon Coast also offer globally 1 - 52 significant carbon storage. UNITED No carbon data STATES Our goal is to provide policymakers, the philanthropic community, and the Where we work carbon finance sector with hard evidence of the clear climate benefits of keeping salmon strongholds intact and safe from large-scale logging, mining, Map produced by Ecotrust. Source: Noon et and other destructive development. And that could accelerate increased al. 2021. Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in protections and restoration across the North Pacific, from the Lower 48 to the Earth’s ecosystems. Under review. Russian Far East.

23 The Stronghold Fund: Dean River, BRITISH COLUMBIA First of its Kind In the North Pacific, wild salmon, steelhead, and trout face no shortage of issues. From habitat loss to warming temperatures to overharvest, the deck often seems stacked against wild fish. This stark reality means that funding for salmon conservation has never been more vital. The Stronghold Fund, created to help balance the odds, is the first grant-making fund of its kind to focus exclusively on Pacific salmon strongholds. And we are making progress. Since 2015, we’ve received $14 million in commitments toward our capitalization goal of $15 million. In 2021, we aim to finish this first phase of fundraising and position the Fund to fully deliver on its high-leverage strategy. The Stronghold Fund’s grants are deployed with three filters in mind: seed funding for new initiatives that can yield high returns for the North Pacific’s wild fish; surge funding for time-sensitive campaigns; and durable support for WSC partners and coalitions working day-in and day-out to safeguard our greatest remaining salmon ecosystems, like Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

For several years, the Fund has been supporting Jeremy Koreski partnership efforts in the Skeena and Dean regions in British Columbia. In 2021, the Fund has a new slate of strategic grants including major support to advance a critical, forward-looking water conservation initiative in Oregon (see p. 18). As we accelerate our grant-making, the Fund is occupying a central role in the conservation landscape by ensuring that WSC’s constellation of partners and initiatives have the resources needed to advocate for the protection of the North Pacific’s wild salmon and steelhead watersheds and everything that depends on them. The Stronghold Fund is ensuring that WSC’s partners and “ initiatives have the resources they need to strongly advocate for the North Pacific’s most extraordinary wild salmon and 24 steelhead rivers." —The Stronghold Fund Executive Director David Finkel Billy Labonte

The Stronghold Fund has received more than 90% of gifts and commitments toward its first capitalization goal of $15 million.

Babine River, BC Ken Morrish

Skeena River, BC

Ken Morrish 25 2020 Donors E. G. Rud and Sons, Inc. Oregon Community Thanks to the steady support of our donors Elevate Building Foundation this year and in years past, we achieved major Commissioning Orrick, Herrington & Eurasian Conservation Fund Sutcliffe, LLP conservation breakthroughs—even amid 2020's Far Bank Enterprises The Orvis Company, Inc. historic disruptions. FV Odin Inc. Oregon Watershed Grassy Creek Foundation Enhancement Board The Stronghold Fund Foundations, Corpora- GRIP6 Belts Ozark Society Anonymous Harbor Ophthalmology Pacific Rim Winemakers tions, Government, Harder Foundation Peninsula Fly Fishers John W. Childs and NGOs John S. Dale The Healy Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts Adamsbuilt Fishing, LLC The DeBruce Foundation Integral Ecology Group Resources Legacy Fund AmazonSmile James and Angela Hambrick J.W. and H.M. Goodman Rising Owl Studios, Inc. Anonymous Foundation Foundation Sage Manufacturing Apartmentfive Conrad N. Hilton Foundation JayTee Investments Sea Witch Botanicals Autzen Foundation The J.C. Kennedy Foundation Jubitz Family Foundation SHWAK Magazine Bass Pro Shops & Cabela’s King of All Trades Silicon Valley Community and James C. Kennedy Guido Rahr Jr Outdoor Fund Ray J. and Stephanie Lane L.P. Brown Foundation Foundation Beach Wash Gordon and Betty Moore Lam Research Tower Rock Lodge WSC President Guido Rahr with Tugur Siberian taimen. Becker Capital Management Foundation Lazar Foundation Trust for Mutual See more in the new film short "River Tigers." Bella Vista Foundation Paulus Family Foundation The Lund House Adult Family Understanding Blue Dog Woodworking Home Two Rivers Mortgage John G. Searle Family Trust Bartholic Family Foundation Bob Rees Fishing Guide McKenzie Fly Fishers USDA Forest Service Individual Donors* and John and Julie Dixon Randall Baxter Service Michael Maas Organic Wallace Research Foundation Richard Albrecht Deke and Hope Welles Fund Joshua Bean Burdge Woodworks Services Walrus Oil Karen Alexander of the Toledo Community Lily Becker Burning Foundation Michigan River Swingers Washington Coast Vincent D. Andrus Foundation Jay H. Beckstead Coast Salmon Partnership Mountain Rose Herbs Sustainable Salmon David and Karen Andruss Willow Springs Charitable Carl G. Behnke Cohoweb Consulting, LLC Natural Systems Design Foundation The Anjulicia Foundation Trust James Ford Bell Foundation and The Drift Fly Shop New Venture Fund Watercliff Permaculture Farm Anonymous Samuel and Suzy Bell DV42 NOAA Restoration Center Western Organization Joseph N. Anscher Craig and Layne BenBen of Resource Councils Roger Applegate Martin Benchoff Education Project Dianne Arrigoni Jordan Benjamin White Light Fund Peter F. Bahls Quinault River, WA Bill Bensley Whole Family Health Clinic Doug Ballinger Bryan Bentrott Wilburforce Foundation Matthew Bancroft Peter Bentzer William and Flora Hewlett Samuel Barone Larry Workman Ed E. Berg Foundation Thomas A. Barron David Berklich Your True Nature, Inc. Alexander W. Barth Peter A. Bigot

While our work at Natural Systems Design is essential to restore “ function back to degraded watersheds, WSC’s proactive strategy to get in and protect wild salmon rivers before the damage is done— and while those systems are still intact—is a refreshing approach to conservation. Their work gives me hope.” —Leif Emberston, Natural Systems Design President 26 *This list includes donors who have given $50 or more. See our full donor list online. Mr. Vince F. Biondo Jr. and Brightside Charitable Carla Cole Announcing Two New Mrs. Betsey L. Biondo Foundation David W. Cole Charitable Fund Members of the Rob Bitney Robert Brinton Christopher M. Coley Philip D. Black and Brigitte L. Skip Brittenham Francis Collin Ambassador Council Sandquist Foundation Arthur Brooks Robert S. Colman Michael H. Blakely John Brooks Charles Colmore WSC is proud to announce two new ad- Thomas and Diane Bland Rick Brown Jerry Conrow ditions to our Ambassador Council—Billy Bobbi Blase Daniel J. Buckley Virginia Coogler Salli Blevins James Budelman Laura K. Cooper Blewett and Dan Michels. As pillars of the Greg Block Joseph Budge Graham L. Covington fishing and conservation communities of Kenneth Bloem Charlie Buffler Cow Creek Tribal Community coastal British Columbia and Bristol Bay, Lisa Blundell Nicholas Bunch Crane Creek Family Fund of Alaska, they will be invaluable to WSC’s Bobolink Foundation and Robert and Mary Bunzel and the Oregon Community Merritt and Heather the Bunzel Family Giving Foundation efforts to engage wild salmon and steel- Paulson Fund Stewart and Lesley Crosby head advocates across the Pacific Rim. David Bonderman Patrick Buresh and Jeannie Jenny Cunningham Please join us in welcoming them! Ed Bowles Bloome The Da Capo Fund John A. Burke The Dabney Point Fund of Billy Blewett and his wife Mandi have co-owned and operated the Lower Dean Nicholas M. Burke the Seattle Foundation and River Lodge on British Columbia’s central coast since 1999, and his family has Burns McCabe Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William G. been an integral part of the lodge since Billy’s father founded it in the mid-sixties. Preston Burton Reed, Jr. Ron Byers Shannon Daniels-Eizenberg He is active in the protection of the iconic Dean River watershed—assisting Donald Calder Alice B. Davies scientists with salmon, steelhead, and wildlife research as a founder of Coastal Cassie Bergman Cassie James Callahan Davies Weeden Fund of the Rivers Conservancy, partnering with the Nuxalk First Nation’s Supporting Pat Callahan Weeden Foundation Emerging Aboriginal Stewards (SEAS) community youth initiative, and serving on John F. Cambria Michael Davis Cassandra Campbell Susan Dean the Dean River Advisory Committee for 20 years. Billy’s in-depth knowledge of the Robert Campi Joseph R. Deatherage central coast’s wild salmon and steelhead runs comes from a life spent exploring Joseph R. Car Elliot Defluri its many marine channels and rivers. Michael Carano Genevieve DeGuzman Caravan Trust and Austen S. Terry Dial and The Drollinger Dan Michels is an owner and manager Cargill II Family Charitable of the multi-award-winning Crystal Creek William S. Carroll Foundation Lodge in Bristol Bay, Alaska, where he Ann Carter Scott P. Dilworth Chris & Nancy Carter Family The DMK Foundation oversees operations, hosts guests, and Fund Dobkin Family Foundation flies one of the bush aircraft. He helped Benton J. Case Craig Dorsey build the original Crystal Creek Lodge in Frank L. Cassidy Doug Fund of the Vermont 1988 and began guiding in the Bristol Bay The Dorothy Jordan Chadwick Community Foundation WSC Ambassador Kate Fund David Douglas region. Dan purchased the lodge in 1995 Crump in Alaska. Carla Chandler Savannah Downey and has managed it since. He says, “What Robert Chandler Karen Drain originally began as a summer adventure Michael and Judy Boyce Andrea Chiappini Norman Dreger has become a life’s work”—a mindset that Tracy Boyer John W. Childs Kimberly Drew Jennifer Brabson Steve Ching Drexler Family Charitable Gift shines through in Dan’s passionate efforts Daniel Brack Louise L. Chinn Fund to conserve the Bristol Bay watershed. Glenn Brackett Tracey and Christopher D. Norman and Elizabeth Stephen P. Bradley Clarke Duffett Gift Fund David Brett William A. & Sara H. Clegg Richard Dulude Katharine Brigham 2007 Trust John Duncan

27 2020 Donors (cont.) Andrea S. Dunlap The Mr. and Mrs. David J. Tony and Jill Garvey Gift Fund David Grohne Daniel Dunn Field Fund Terry Gentry Maureen Grojean Sheila Dunn David Finkel Glasser Family Fund Amy Gulick Carol Durham Jon Firehammer Gene V. Glinecki The Haase Family Foundation Oakley Duryea McLane Fisher David and Alena Goeddel Brian Hacker Lindsay F. and Patti Paxton Robert Fisher and the Pisces Fred Goldberg Family Mari Haddock Eberts Fund Foundation Foundation Thomas Haensly Chris and Gina Eckley Russell Fisher Leslie Goldblatt Jessica Hagenah Nancy Edwards FitzWilliams Fund Harriet Goldis Glenn Haley S Eldridge Reuben H. Fleet Foundation Edyne and Allen Gordon Keith Hallman Richard Elefant Fund at the San Diego Foundation Scott Halpert Roe Emery II Foundation Richard Goss Bruce Ham Mark Emmert Andrew R. Forauer William Goubert Tod R. Hamachek and Saben Emmons Robert Ford Jerrold J. Graber Barbara Callister Saiget David Hamilton From left: Jonathan, Morgan, Darcy, and David Saiget in George F. Hamner Cordova, Alaska. Umpqua River, OR Thomas Hansch Thomas M. Hansen Loren Irving Steven G. Kohl William Harkinson The George and Karen James Jeffrey and Molly Kohnstamm Joseph L. Harris Family Foundation and the Kohnstamm Family Elizabeth Hart John O. Jenkins Foundation Lesa Hastings Steven Jetter Jim and Maureen Kosa Richard Hawes Jack and Pam Jolley Kim and Jay Kosa Ned and Sis Hayes Family Jay Jones Paul and Donna Kranhold Fund Molly Jones Mark Kristoff Stephen and Dana Hayes Sean Jones David Krone Kyle Hayslip Dysa Kafoury Gerald Kuhn Patricia J. Hemphill William Kamitakahara Julie and Marc Kummel Kathy Hervey Mark Kane Richard Kustich Peter and Laura Herzog Matt Kane E. R. Labbe Peter Higgins and The Jonathan Kaplan and Sarah Higgins Family Foundation Malarkey WSC's Dr. Tim Elder snorkeling Curt Hill Andrew Karamanos Evans Creek, a tributary of Joseph M. Hixon Jeanne-Marie Kaufmann Oregon's Rogue River. Katherine Holler Julia Kazaks Andrew Horowitz Barbara Kelley Brett Howard Dave McCoy R D. Kerst Andrew S. Howell Mitchell Kiesler

Lori Howk Marshall and Pat Kilduff Brian Kelley Susan and William Epstein Will Forney Donald and Karen Grade Carmen Hudson The James Kilts Family Fund Philanthropic Fund of Charles H. Foster Joel T. Grade Todd Hummel Ian and Kate Malone the Jewish Community The Franklin Cole Foundation Stephan Graf Molly Hunter Kimmich Foundation of the East Bay William Frerichs Victor Grandidier The James Huntington Kirsten J. Kinsman Randy Ericksen The Helen Clay Frick Sam and Sarah Gray via Foundation and Samuel H. Stephen J. Klarquist Emily Ericsen Foundation Redtail Fund Ellis George and Susan Klein Todd Evanoff Shannon Friesen Stanley B. Gregory Fund of Matthew Huston Jason Klivington Thomas Evans Marna Fullerton and the the Minneapolis Foundation Thomas P. Hutchens Calvin Knight Jeffrey Evershed Fullerton Family Fund of the Joshua Green Foundation Glenn Hutchins Paul Koehler Andrew Fairley Minneapolis Foundation Grinstein Family Charitable Donald O. Hutchison Koerner/Dieter Family Scott Ferguson Tom Garnier Fund Charles Hutzler Foundation Giving Fund 28 Katherine Labeau Mr. Cargill MacMillan III and Gordon and Betty Moore Phil and Cassy Ordway - Allan R. Larson Sally MacMillan Fund Nushka Fund Norm Larson John and Jane Malarkey Michael Moore The Bernard Osher Michael Laurie William Malchow Amanda Morgan Foundation Erika Leaf Nathan and Christine Mantua Rhidian Morgan Gary L. Ostenson Jerick Lee Scott Marr William B. Morrish Kyle Ostenson Richard Leeds and Anne Michael J. Mars Frank Morse Bryan Overcarsh Kroeker and the Wildlife Nathan Marsh John G. Motlow Whitney Padden- Forever Fund Christine Marshall Henry and Heidi Mottl Arnautou Ian Lee-Leviten Mark D. Martin and Susie Marco Müller Jack Palmer The Leo Model Foundation Hagemeister John and Susan Mullin Fund Panwy Foundation and and Marjorie Russel John and Megan Martinelli Debra Nathanson Mark W. Cooper Roger Leo Joseph Matulevich Pete Neidecker Steven Parrett

George McCormick Linda D. Nelson Patagonia.com Martinelli John McCosker Margaret Nelson The Patterson Family Kelly McCracken William Neukom Audie J. Paulus and Kino Connie McDonald Neumeier Taylor Foundation Crooke DONOR SPOTLIGHT: Laureston McLellan Fund Steven Paverman

Mia Sheppard The MCM Fund The Nicholas Endowment Ingrid Pederson and Tye The Martinellis Mary Jane McQuillen Fund Sundlee W K. Meier Jane Nicolai Fred Pendergast Talking to John and Megan Martinelli, it’s Jefferson Miller Normandy Corporation and John W. Person immediately clear that both deeply care about John D. Miller Michael D. Mercier Randall M. Peterman their community and share a passion for all things Michelle Miller Harrington Sarah Novey Elizabeth Petersen wild. And their actions reflect these values, from Elizabeth Noyes William F. Mink Joel Peterson Megan’s work chairing the annual holiday food Mintkeski Family Fund of Robert H. Noyes Gloria J. Pfeif the Oregon Community Sanders and Danielle Nye Megan Phelan drive for their local food bank to the conservation Foundation OCF Founder’s Fund of Charles and Jennifer easement the Martinellis placed on their family Jareb Mirczak the Oregon Community Phelps and the Ritz ranch on California’s Pajaro River. John D. Miskulin Foundation and Mr. William Family Foundation Mitzvah Fund of the Oregon R. Swindells Franklin & Dorothy “We’ve tried to set a good example for our kids by Community Foundation Roy and Susan O’Connor and Piacentini Charitable being active in our local community and by giving Moccasin Lake Foundation the Merlin Foundation Trust back to the places we love,” says John. Sam Moersfelder Kean Oh Piacentini Fund Patrick Moloney Jonathan Olch John and Dianne Pierson It was John’s passion for fly fishing that brought Kirsten Kinsman hooked up Brett Montague Kenneth Edward Olivier and Gregg Pike Wild Salmon Center’s work to the couple’s atten- on the Deschutes River. Michael Montgomery Angela Nomellini Alan Platt Bob Moore James O’Neill Andrew Platt tion. Both quickly realized that they deeply valued Diane Leveque the cascading benefits to people and wildlife that Clyde S. and Linda Lewis come from protecting wild salmon. For Megan, Peter Lillevand the outsized impact salmon have as a keystone William Lind We are grateful for the Wild Salmon Center’s important species is what most inspired her. For more than a Sarah Livingstone Tammy Lloyd “work to maintain clean and healthy rivers. As a lifelong fly decade, the Martinellis have been dedicated sup- Lynn Loacker porters of WSC’s conservation work. It’s thanks to The Longview Foundation - fisherman, I have a deep appreciation for the natural beauty the long-term commitment of people like John and Ellie Crosby and solitude found while out on the river. Now more than Megan—and their strong belief in our mission— William Lum that we’re able to achieve major conservation James Macdonald ever, we need organizations like WSC.” gains for the North Pacific’s salmon strongholds. —Pat Becker, Jr., President of Becker Capital Management 29 Carl Safina Growing up around the mouth of the Columbia River in Darcy and David Saiget “ Oregon, salmon was an important part of my family dinners. Christopher Santella Peter Saraceno I remember coming home from school one day to find a 4-foot Ted Schaefer Ronald Schell salmon a family friend had caught resting in the kitchen sink. The Schifrin Foundation The connection my community had to these fish and their Jeff Schillings Joann Schlachter cultural significance for Indigenous communities is why it's Schwab Charitable Fund and Lawrence and Pamela important to me to support wild salmon conservation." Garlick —Susan Dean, Stronghold Guardian donor Matthew Scott Robert G. Scott Gordon Seabury William Seaman Kenneth L. Spalding Charles and Carol Travis Michele Vathis Glenn Seaverns Spark Charitable Foundation Jeffery Tribbett Alan Vidinsky Gary Seelig and Furman and Susan Michael Triplett Eric von der Heyden John and Dorcy Seethoff Moseley Scott Tucker John and Frances Von Schlegell

Scott Carlson, Coastal Rivers Conservancy Coastal Scott Carlson, Wendy Sehn Susan Speer Gregory Tudor Clint Waggoner Pearl Seiden Family and Ms. James M. Spencer John Tyler Brooks Walker WSC's Dr. Matt Sloat conducts field research in a Eucott Bay Pearl Seiden Douglas C. Spieske John Upton Charles F. Walton salmon creek in the Dean Channel, British Columbia. Peter Seligmann and Lee Tzedakah Starhill Jennifer Valentine Robert and Elizabeth Warren Rhodes Michael and Tania Stepanian Robert Van Dyk Fund Emanuela Plesa Foundation Mark Selland Leo Stern Charles and Suzanne Plopper Restaino/Becker Family Fund Joseph Selle Terry Sternberg WSC's Dr. Will Atlas with Cecil Brown, a member of the Charitable Fund and Thomas Restaino Senior Family Charitable Gift Duncan Louis Stewart Heiltsuk Nation, at the Koeye fish weir in British Columbia. Sally B. Polk Jonathan Rettmann Fund and Paul and Tracy Foundation James Pollaci Robert Rice Senior W. D. Stewart Kaci Poor Ronald S. Richter Steven M. Shapiro Merri Anne Stowe Prairie Foundation and Colin Elizabeth M. Rickles Casey Sheahan Rob Stuart

and Martha Moseley Fraser Rieche Ilya Sherbovich Louise K. Stump and the Pine Olivia Nowak Joanna Priestley Joe Riter The Siegler Family Fund of River Foundation Ryan Purdy Beverlee Roberts the Jewish Community Joe Sugura David Putegnat John Rodelli Foundation John F. Swift Kevin Quinn Christopher Roderick Brett Sigoda Colin Szehner Edgar K. Ragsdale Douglas Rohn Jason K. Smesrud John and Janet Tangney Guido and Lee Rahr Bruce Ronning James A. Smith Susan Tarjan William Rahr Steven Rose James D. Smith Benjamin R. Taylor James Ray John P. Rosenberg Julian Smith Thendara Foundation Thomas L. Ray Roth Charitable Foundation Stephanie Smith Anne M. Thomas Brian and Louise Read Family and Stephen and Jean Roth Clay Snaza George Thomas Fund Mark Rougeux Soka Piiwa Foundation Stephen Thompson Redco Foundation Kathryn Rowe Craig Solum Nick Thorpe Kathryn Refi Mary Ruckelshaus John & Betty Soreng Robert T. Tjian Joe and Shirley Regan Rushmore Foundation Environmental Fund of John A. and Judith A. Tomke Charles Renfrew Andrew Sabin Family the Oregon Community Fund Randolph Repass and the Foundation Foundation Joe H. Tonahill Repass-Rodgers Family Yale Sacks Michael and Diane Soules Galen Torneby

30 Mitch andHolly Zuklie Mara Zimmerman Suzanne andCraig Zarling Henry Zarem Stanford C.Young Wyncote Foundation Jeffries Wyman Laura andGeofWyatt Mariusz Wroblewski Andrew Wright Elizabeth L.Wolfensperger Dave Wiseman Robert Wise Loring H.Winthrop Kevin andAnneWinthrop Walt Winslow Turner A.Wingo John D.Wimberly Susan andSteveWilson Steve Wilson Michael Willis M.V. WilliamsFoundation, Michael Williams Gregory Williams Carrie L.Wilks R. D.Wiancko David K.Whitney Gordon Whiting Carson Whitehill Karen Whisler Helen Westbrook Friedhelm Wensing WEM Foundation andBetty Eric Wells Georgia Welles Deke andHopeWelles Fund The Weld Foundation William Welborn Richard E.Weiss L. M.Weeks William F.Weege Casey Webb Dennis Wavrin J. MichaelWatt Northwest Inc. andBruceC.Williams MacMillan and HopeWelles Foundation, Inc.andDeke of theToledo Community James E.Brennan Irasema Brasov Walter Bramkamp Linda Bradford Stephen Boyle Evan Bowers Paul Borcherding Marguerite Boler Chelsea Blubaugh Stephen andRebecca Penelope Blackwell Pam Birmingham Luke Biondolillo Renee Billiau Andrea Benson Logan Bennett Vanessa Behr Teresa Beesley Isadore Becker Caylin Barter Richard Baron Steph Barnhart Andrea Ballhause Julie Baker Devin Baker Will Baine Heatha Bailey Kara Babb Steve Audette Tom Armstrong Randi Armstrong Diana Anthony Anonymous Felicia Angelie Ron Anderson Bruce Anderson Mia Ambroiggio Lisa Alvarez Joy Al-Sofi Thomas Allen Shirley Aldaba Mark andJanetAlcornGiving Diane Alcibar Doug Albertson Rebecca andAndyAdkins Robert Adams Brenda Abasolo Individuals Under$50 Blanchard Fund Thomas Delegarde Michael Dean Celia Davis Benjamin Davies Danielle Dannenberg Paul Daly Pat Curry Hugh Curry Nick Cunningham Amanda Cromwell John Copeland Sam Cooke Jeremy Cook Billie Cook Kelly Conrad Duncan Conley Alexia Coney Darren Coleman Nicole Clearwater Regina Clarke Sasimaporn Chuenahrom Gary Christianson Sandra Choat Brad Chisholm Jason Ching Joshua Chiles Rofee Chernovsky Tania Chatterjee Lori Chapman Joshua Chalmers Claire Cereghino Sean Casey Don Carroll Delaney Carr Kristen Carpentier Michael Caranci James Cappy Kevín Cantoran Linda Cadzow Mara Buxton Fred Bullen Cierra Buer Michael Brown Ann Brown Oakley Brooks Pamela Brocious Mike Brinkley Elizabeth P.Bright Murray Brigham Patrick Brennan

Ken Morrish legacy. [email protected] or(971)255-5562,visit wildsalmoncenter.org/ To learnmore,or totellusaboutyourexistingplans, across theNorthPacificby including WildSalmon Center inyourwilltoday. Help usbuildalegacyoffree-flowing rivers,denseforests,andabundantfish and steelheadriversforgenerations tocome. means, canoffertoday—andmakeasignificantdifference forwildsalmon our conservationeffortsoverthelongterm.It’sagiftthatanyone,ofany Making abequesttoWildSalmonCenter isapowerfulwaytosupport beyond ourlifetime. And theirprotectionrequiresamulti-decadalcommitment thatlastsfar take ourchildrenandgrandchildren. they’re alsocentersofhumanwell-being,andbeautifulplaces wherewecan These remarkablewatershedsaren’tonlycriticalforglobal biodiversity— strongholds forwildfishthatspanstheentireNorthPacific. the RussianFar East,WildSalmonCenter isbuildinganetworkofprotected From thetemperaterainforestsofcoastalOregontoremoterivers Part Strongholds Your of Make Legacy contact Kim Kosa at contact KimKosaat 31 2020 Donors (cont.) Nikki Dennis Connor Ferguson Willis Heavenrich Tom Kovalicky Victoria McCaffrey Chris Derrickson Mark Ferguson Maxwell Heinzelman Kristin Kozelsky Kenzie McCallum Romana Di Suvero Mitchell Field Andrew Hellinger Wendy Kroger Kimberly McClenahan Solutions ForSea Andrew Dober Amy Fingerle Jeanne Henderson Eva Kronen Loretta McCormick Marisa Donnelly Devin Fink Judy Henderson Suzanne Kush Nolan McCoy Kara Dorr Walter Finkbeiner Nancy Henderson Debra Lajoie Vera McCullen Robin Dow David Fluharty Ruth Henrich Aurele Lamontagne Sharon McEwan Jeanne Dultz Jeffrey Foote David Hermanns Sally Landefeld Megan McFadden Don E. Dumond Craig Forester Jolene Herz Ron Landskroner Mary McGaughey Christopher Durai Cheyanne Foster Harrison S. Hilbert Priscilla Lane Carrie McGowan Gretchen Dysart Vanessa Foster Micaela Hogan Andrew Langford Robin Meek Carolyn Eady Magali Foucher Raymond Hogan Gordon Lank Emmett Meissner Natasha Novikova of Cait Fox Helen Holliday Diane Lapointe Roger A. Michalek ForSea Solutions. Glen Fox Peter Hollomon Nancy Larkin Randall Mierow Barbara Franklin Henna Honkanen John Leary Whitley Mike Scott Nelson Mark Frieze Amanda Hoover Coline Leconte Christine Miller Tyler Nelson Roger C. Furlong Jeffrey Hornaday Harold Lee Dillon Miller Eric Newman Laura Gadzala Sabolch Horvat Raymond Lee Nicholas Miller Elizabeth Nugent Bill Gardner Gregory Howard Susan Legault Jana Mines Ben Nyssen Charlie Geiger Victoria Huber Annie Leong Thierry Monay Hannah Obenaus Stacey Gerber Carmen Hudson Ron Leong Leland Montgomery Dennis J. O'Bryant Jessica Ghersi Dorothy Hudson Daniel Lesch Candice Morgan Max Oglesbee Geoffrey Gilbert Stephanie Hull Lowen Lewis-Quigley James Morrell Kristin Ohm-Pedersen Marcheta Gillam Alex Hunter Sarah Lincoln Benjamin Morris Judy Olsen Janice Gloe Julian Husselmann Ron Lindsay Carissa Morris Philip Oresick Oliver Godnig Devin Hyman Bryan Linsley Carol Morris Michael Oreste Simon Goldrick Lynne Iberg Donald Lintner Cheryl Mott Kathryn Oresto Wendy Gonzales Ronald Irrgang John S. Lively Juan Murillo David Otten Jeff Gordon Stacy Ivers Holly Loew Richard Murray Jack Otto Wiebe Gortmaker Shalom Jacks Rachel Loui Jane Negri

WSC Staff Jack Owens Matt Granger Richard James Nancy Luna-Walker Jake Nelsen Mike Palmer Shawn Granton Jessica Jasper Jason Lundgren David Nelson WSC's Oakley Brooks at Bill Parker Rochelle Gravance Timothy Jenkins Molly Lusignan Russell Nelson Salmon School, a live- Brandon Paul Amanda J. Grondin Benjamin Johns Barbara Lyne streamed celebration of Joan E. Haab Daniel Johnson Michael Maas art and salmon with glass Russian partner Dmitry Lisitsyn of Sakhalin Environment Urs Hafner Michael Justa Lynn Mackenzie Watch patrolling the Nabil River for poachers. blowing,Tacoma, WA. Ashley Hahn Mettilda Kaimathuruth Catherine Madsen Shani Halfon Robert L. Kalez Kevin Maier Thomas L. Eggerman Kenlynn Hamilton Stephanie Kaza Emily Maitino Lauren Eggleston Blair Hampson Elizabeth Keaton Maricris Mangohig Matthew Eick Christopher Hance David Kelly George Marino Emily Elliott Carla Hanlon Felice Kelly Michael Markley Michael Ellis Sabrina Harrison Jennifer Killion Pamela Marley Edouard Eltherington Anthony Hasek Maria Kind Lies Martin Susan Emmons Richard Hassen Lisa King Louis Martinez Barb Engelter Rebecca Hatfield Clayton Kinsel Brandon Massey Joanne Entrekin Ethan Havenar Gary Kish Dave Mathews Sakhalin Environment Watch Rodger Fagerholm Lauren Hawkins Jolene Knudsen Carl Mattick Linda Fairclough Mary Hayden Andre Kohler Christopher May Natalie Fedak Susan Haywood Alyssa Koida Lisa Mayberry

Gary Payne Michael Schulte FINANCIALS: Statement of Activities Melina Pease Ed Scott ForSea Solutions ForSea For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 Chantelise Pells Gavin Scott Crystal Perez Joi Searson Heidi Perry Eric Seibert REVENUE Judy Piercy Dimitri Sevastopoulo Government Wild Salmon Center has received the highest Glen Pinnow Mark Shelton 17% rating for sound fiscal management from Meg Pitman and Caroline Elizabeth Sheppard Charity Navigator. McCoy Yan Shikhvarger Other Tom Popowich Eric R. Shoemaker Individuals 2.3% Pamula Price Ryan Shopay 47.8% $6,129,059* Wild Salmon Center has Rachel Pringle Earl D. Shumate received the GuideStar Max Pritchett Shannon Sims gold seal for transparency. Sara Pritt Suzanne Smetana Foundations Jacob Quartuccio Jimmy Smith 27.3% WSC is a grantee of The Conservation Lyn Radke Michelle Smith Corporations Ankitha Rai David Solnit 5.6% Alliance, a group of outdoor industry Tatyana Ramos Richard Sprague companies that disburses collective Lynn Ransford Terry Spurling EXPENSES annual membership dues to grassroots Rachel Raver Gavin Stair environmental organizations. Giuliana Reed Mark Stannard Fundraising Jeff H. Reese Mitchell Stargrove 13% Bryce Reif Alexis Stark Javier Reza Mary Louise Stathers Program Expenses Kyra Rice Trygve Steen Administrative $5,633,158 80% Troy Rintz Jeffrey Stern 7% Sarah A. Rith David Stone WSC has been approved to Jesse Robbins Kristina Storic receive grants through the Jon Robeson Kelly Stottlemyer One Percent for the Planet Linda Robinson Seth Stransky program. Kayla Robson Tom Stuart *Revenue includes new funds raised during each calendar year, Mark Rochester Monica Summers Roger Rocka Margaret Sumner-Wichmann contributions pledged for work in future years. Arthur Rodgers Tim Swan Shelley Rolfe Andrew Swanson Charles B. Root Kay Syrrist Elizabeth Rose Jeffrey Szilagyi Tyler Ross Mike Talbot Diana Rothman Alan Tausch David Rubin Richard Tepe Adam Ruetz Kevin Test Kathy Ruffert Michael Tevlin Jeff Rundio Dennis Therry Juvata Rusch Julie Thomas Oxana Sagaydachnaya Graeme Thompson Liezel Saldivar Helen Thompson Sakhalin Environment Watch Justin Saxe Linda Thompson Michael Scharenbroich Kayla Tidmore Taylor Schmidt Christine Trevis Holly Scholles Michael Trotto

John McMillan 33 2020 Donors (cont.) Brenda Troup Richard Wros Mary Bailey in honor of Carol Ann Cook in honor of Ann Krista and Brad Harris in Martha Truninger Larry Ydens L. Strunk Cook memory of Jay Hair Hope Turner Todd Yorke Stephanie Bailey in honor of Amy Cooper in honor of Amy Stuart Hartley in honor of Phil Uhl Alexis Zaring Collin Bailey Cooper Helen Adams and Lois C. Maggie Vogt Madeleine Zwirello Annie Beust in memory of Jody Creasman in honor of Fred Morrison Jerry Wagner David Beust Dave Neil Margaret Heydon in memory Ann Wales Honor and Memorial Candace Bonner in honor of Peter J. Crosby in honor of of John Heydon David H. Walker Gifts Gavin Lipp Ken Morrish Joyce Hill in honor of Aaron Douglas W. Walker Anonymous in honor of Paul Bovarnick in honor of Lynda Decker in honor of Hill Josh Wall Harriette Botka Sam Bovarnick Evan Wonacotte Family & Travers Hill Polak in honor of

Moira Walley-Beckett Anonymous in honor of the Susan Jane Brown in honor of Peter Wonacotte Family Brian O’Dea Alamy Lincoln Ware Bradan Feasa Voyage Robert Van Dyk Megan Deets in honor of Malgorzata Holszanska in Dean Warlin Anonymous in honor of Elizabeth Bunce in honor of Deborah Swartz honor of Alina Byrne Ann Mason in honor of Jean Eric Weatherholtz Christopher P. Cannon Guido R. Rahr Diane DeJager in memory of Donna Hopson in honor of Hill Ross Weir Anonymous in honor of Leon Lisa Butler in honor of Larry Margaret H. Hamachek Rosalind James Pam & John McCosker William Whitcomb Langenfeld Butler Craig S. Derby in memory of Andy Hunthausen in memory Charitable Fund in honor of Mark Whitley Anonymous in honor of John Nancy Calderbank in honor of Richard C. Strain of Barbara Bullinger Guido R. Rahr Anne Whitney Muir Jane Calderbank Lee Dooley in honor of Sal Lore James in honor of Phelps McIlvaine in honor of Kathleen Wieczorek Anonymous in memory of Chris Caldwell in honor of Appel McKinley James William B. McIlvaine Byron Wilcox Whitney MacMillan Bryce Carol Drewes in honor of Susan Janssen in honor of John C. Menefee in honor of Jay Cindy D. Williams Anonymous in honor of Ryan Carpenter in honor of Marilyn Drewes Jim Kazakoff Fewel David Williams Patricia O’Donnell Bryce Ginther Karen and John Durkheimer Haley Johnson in honor of Gary Mikesh in honor of Frank Karen and Bob Williams Anonymous in honor of Jackie Gabriel Cendoma in honor of Family Fund in honor of Craig Campbell J. Mikesh Michael T Williams Peter and Grandpa Lange Katmai Bears Steve and Cindy Harder Haley Johnson in honor of Jefferson Miller in honor of Harriet Willmott Anonymous in memory of Kirsten Collins in honor of Amy Englehardt in honor of Gregg Takashima Jefferson Miller Jodi Wilmoth David Wieland Indigenous People Jacques McChesney Joseph and Catherine Gary Millhollen in honor of James Wilson Anonymous in honor of Frederick Colwell in honor of Rich Felber in honor of Johnson Family Foundation Anne Millhollen Donald Winn Mitch Zuklie Frederick Colwell Theodore Roosevelt in honor of Ted Richter and Edward M. Moersfelder in Aaron Wittman Steven Aguilu in honor of US Charles Conn and Beverley Ian Ferguson in honor of Cathy Johnson honor of Sam Moersfelder Mark Wolff Environmental Protection Robertson in honor of Edward G. Ferguson Michael Johnson in honor of John Moody in honor of Sydney Woodfield Agency Bruce Hill Scott Franklin in memory of My Mom Thomas and William Moody Scott Franklin Gregg Kanter in honor of Lisa Kevin and Gail Murphy in honor Amanda Galton-Valle in Kanter of Ken Guinasso Klamath River, CA honor of Claire and Zanley Karen Kennette in memory of Sierra Nelson in honor of James Galton Kirsten Kennette Oswald Carlos Garcia-Quijano in Wei-Tai Kwok in honor of Mallory Neuman in honor of honor of every salmon out Kelland Harrision, the Alex Hecker there and my son Khalil, Bradan Feasa Voyage, and Erika Niemi in honor of Daren who loves salmon Lano Harrison Niemi Caton Gates in honor of Corey Larner in memory of Karen Nordenholz in honor of Willa C. Caton Gates Scott Niedermeyer Lillian Nordenholz Corinne Gentile in honor of Adam Lee in honor of Myron Chris Nunn in honor of John W. Megan Wollitz Lee Childs Thomas Goolsby in honor of Carol Lesch in honor of Roger Joshua Olson in honor of Alex and Kim Hecker and Lynda Decker Donald Trump David Gulick in honor of Jeff Maureen Liston in honor of Annie O’Sullivan in honor of and Abby Miller David B. Liston Toria Rossin Lisa K. Hansen in memory of Matthew Looby in honor of Nathan Page in honor of Karen Keith Hansen Cassie Bergman Kubarek Ken Morrish

34 Christopher M. Palmer in Kaola Swanson in honor of William Baumgardner Noel Morrill honor of Jack A. Palmer, Jr. Beth A. Perry James Behnke Terry Nelson Mary Perry in memory of Callum Sykes in honor of Jordan Benshea Thien Nguyen Gregory L. Deblock Maddi Struder Andrew Bidwell Keith Ostendorf Kelley Platt in honor of Dr. D. Kelly Taylor in honor of Ken Justin Boucher Jasper Pääkkönen Osgood and Kevin S. Cooper Jon Bowers Amee Pacheco and Patrick David J. Pollock in honor of James Terborg in memory of Robert Bricca McCoy Scott T. Garvey Curt Nyquist James Bronson Jason Parker Linda Railey in honor of Thea Carol Tova Newman in honor Jonette Bronson Tami Paulus Railey of Stefanie Smith Robert Budd Paul Pavich Thea Railey in honor of Linda Sara Vadgama in memory of Charlie E. Chambers Medwin Peck Railey Brian N. Schaffer Kirsten Collins Allen Penn Paul Riedmiller in honor of John Van Slyke in honor of Cathlene A. Crawford Brad Peterson Donald Riedmiller Bruce Van Slyke Haley Crozier Tiggy Pettifer Emma Roach in honor of Christopher Verba in honor of Megan Deets David & Ellen Phelps Matthew Roach Donald Trump Christine Den Adel Chris Pizey Marc Robertson in memory Janet Waggoner in honor of Stephen Dettman Mark Poltorak of Evan Robertson Alex Osteen Juliet Dodd-o Thea Railey

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35 Wild Salmon Center Staff

Guido Rahr, President and Chief Executive New Staff Emily Anderson, Alaska Program Director Will Atlas. Ph.D., Salmon Watershed Scientist Caylin Barter, Water Policy Program Manager Oakley Brooks, Communications Director Brett Brownscombe, Special Projects Director Jody Creasman, Media Design Coordinator Ramona DeNies, Sr Writer Tim Elder, Ph.D., Southwest Oregon Program Manager David Finkel, VP of Development Will Atlas Caylin Barter Brett Brownscombe & Communications and Executive WSC Staff Director of The Stronghold Fund Jessica Helsley, Washington Program Director Kathy Holler, Chief Financial Officer Our Life History Project videos follow WSC staff Kacy Holven, Staff Accountant members on their journeys to joining the conservation Lori Alexander Howk, Sr Media Design Manager movement. From Betsy Krier, who found home deep in Kim Kosa, Development Director the Olympic Peninsula, to Dr. Sam Snyder, a native Texan Betsy Krier, Fish Habitat Specialist, who's defended Bristol Bay for the last decade, to Mariusz Olympic Peninsula Sara LaBorde, Executive VP Wroblewski, who traveled the longest road from Poland to Hollye Maxwell, Executive Assistant the U.S., these stories show us the values that bind us and Amee Pacheco, Sr Grants Manager the places that inspire us. Watch at wildsalmoncenter.org/ Audie Paulus, Development Manager Matt Sloat, Ph.D., Director of Science Mariusz Wroblewski life-history-project Sam Snyder, Ph.D., Alaska Sr Campaign Manager Ellie Stair, Development Assistant Betsy Krier Sam Snyder Mark Trenholm, Coastal Program Director Bob Van Dyk, Ph.D., Oregon and California Policy Director Mariusz Wroblewski, Western Pacific Program Director

Science Fellow Mikhail Skopets, Ph.D., Science Fellow

Photos and film by Brian Kelley 36 Board of Directors

Mitch Zuklie, Chairman, California New Board Members John Childs, Massachusetts Tatiana Degai Tatiana Degai, Ph.D., Iowa Dr. Tatiana Degai is from Kamchatka, Russia, and her family belongs to the Itelman John Dixon, Washington Rick Halford, Alaska salmon community. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa’s Tom Hansen, California ARTICenter. Her research concentrates on Indigenous knowledge systems and visions of Loretta Keller, California sustainability, including biocultural diversity, cultural landscapes, language revitalization, Steven Kohl, Virginia Kirill Kuzishchin, Ph.D., Russia and Indigenous education. Ray Lane, California Nate Mantua, Ph.D., California Rick Halford is a former Republican state Senate President from Alaska. An avid Nikita Mishin, Russia outdoorsman, he divides his time between Chugiak/Eagle River in south central Alaska Randall Peterman, Ph.D., British and a home in Bristol Bay, where he’s an active pilot and guide. He’s an outspoken critic Columbia Guido Rahr, Oregon of the Pebble Mine and has testified against it before Congress and the Alaska Legislature. Andrea Reid, Ph.D., British Columbia Fraser Rieche, British Columbia Dr. Andrea Reid is a citizen of the Nisga’a Nation and an Assistant Professor at the Mary Ruckelshaus, Ph.D., University of British Columbia’s Institute for Oceans and Fisheries. She leads UBC’s Rick Halford Washington new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, a national and international hub for the study and Ilya Sherbovich, Russia Ivan Thompson, British Columbia protection of culturally significant fish and fisheries. April Vokey, British Columbia David K. Welles, Ohio Dr. Mary Ruckleshaus is the director of the Natural Capital Project and a Stanford University consulting professor. She previously led the Ecosystem Science Program Emeritus at NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. Her recent work focuses on Dmitry S. Pavlov, Ph.D. developing ecological models including estimates of the flow of ecosystem services and Peter W. Soverel (Founder) Jack Stanford, Ph.D. changes in human wellbeing under different global management regimes.

Front cover: leaping coho, OR. Back cover: Killer whales, BC (Alamy). Below (from left): Peter Seligmann, Loretta Keller, Mitch Zuklie, Guido Rahr on the Deschutes.

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