Wild Salmon Center
“Our mission is to protect the world’s salmon strongholds—wild rivers where salmon still thrive.”
The origin
How they started
Wild Salmon Center says its mission is “to protect the world’s salmon strongholds—wild rivers where salmon still thrive.” It says it has built its conservation strategy over more than 30 years, and its Bristol Bay page names hardrock mining as the single greatest threat to the sockeye fishery there.
How they run
Small and lean
We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.
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The backers
Backed on the record by Wilburforce Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, latest filing FY25.
On the Hill
The Wild Salmon Center has hired federal lobbyists: 33 filings from 2019 to 2026. The filings, at the Senate.
Most filed on natural resources and the environment.
Under threat right now
The most urgent fights on the record
Open comment windows first, then live federal cases. Each opens the groups defending it.
- Comments close Oct 23 · 4 days leftWhite Mountain National ForestNew Hampshire
- Comments close Oct 26 · 7 days leftGifford Pinchot National ForestWashington
- Comments close Nov 2 · 14 days leftGates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)Alaska
- Comments close Nov 6Grand Canyon National ParkArizona
Every place under threat, the fifty states and the wildlife, each with who’s on the record for it.
Ways in
How to help
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