What's Needed Most: Partial Removal of the Four Lower Snake River Dams
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has concluded that indeed, opening these dams is the only course of action that holds real promise for restoring salmon.

What We're Doing
To date, Wild Angels is the only organization that has succeeded in convincing a member of the U.S. Congress to ask the President to remove these costly dams. We also took six members of the Seattle City Council on our tours of the dams. In each case, our presentation of the issue, combined with their first-hand experiences at the dams inspired them to become active supporters of salmon recovery. On August 1, 2000 the Seattle City Council passed a unanimous 8-0 resolution favoring dam removal. Other successes on the salmon recovery campaign have included our efforts to encourage strong media coverage of the salmon issue. The Los Angeles Times joined us for a tour of the dams and subsequently published a very powerful editorial in favor of partial removal of the Lower Snake River dams. Their editorial ran under the headline "Salmon Need Right of Way". Another example of the effectiveness of our approach was our success in changing the minds of leaders in the Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters (WA, OR, ID) and thus avoiding their proposed resolution in opposition to dam removal.

"The Wild Angels' tour of the Snake River dams and the salmon restoration issue was extremely valuable. It made a dramatic difference in the City Council's thinking on this issue to be able to explore the dams in person. Wild Angels' staff did a great job of presenting the economic benefits associated with the proposed partial removal of these four dams. The Council's 8-0 vote in favor of partial dam removal would not have come out that way without the convincing work of Wild Angels. Seattle City Council member, Richard Conlon, September 2000" .