Salmon habitat in the Pacific region touches almost all of us. It stretches through city neighborhoods, rural areas, farms, and forested land.
These diverse geographic areas, plus the rivers that run through them, make up the watersheds critical to salmon survival.
Get involved with your watershed organization
Live a more salmon friendly lifestyle
Your impact on salmon/fish: a self assessment
Get involved with your watershed organization
One of the best ways for you to help salmon is to get involved in your local watershed organization.
These organizations are working in urban and rural communities all over California, Oregon, and Washington,
restoring and protecting salmon habitat by working cooperatively with landowners, local officials, community groups, and volunteers. They need your help and collaboration. To find a watershed organization in your area, click on Watershed Groups in CA, OR, & WA.
Live a more salmon friendly lifestyle
Because most of us live in salmon habitat, our daily activities affect these precious fish. Whether we live in an urban neighborhood or on a farm covering hundreds of acres, we can live a more salmon-friendly lifestyle. Here are some tips:
Your
impact on salmon/fish: a self-assessment
Want to know more about how you can help salmon and watersheds? The 20 page boolket above produced by the Washington
Department of Fish & Wildlife, provides a very easy question and answer process that tells the reader how lifestyle choices
affect fish and watersheds, and how simple lifestyle changes can improve that relationship. This is a great opportunity for teachers
and students, watershed councils and citizens, and anyone wanting to know more about how to do their part to save salmon. Call
360/902-2207 to order paper copies, or access the link above to download the PDF file.
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