![]() While this is a busy time of year, concerns for low salmon numbers in Alaska and British Columbia are growing, and we need your voice! The AK-B.C. transboundary rivers issue has ongoing support from our elected members of Congress and state lawmakers -- and it is so important that they continue to hear from Alaskans. Please take a few minutes to send their offices an email to give thanks for their continued work to elevate the transboundary issue to the highest levels of government - and to defend our rivers, jobs, and way of life. The Province of British Columbia continues to permit massive tailings dams to hold back contaminated mining waste at the headwaters of the Taku, Stikine, and Unuk rivers - creating ticking time bombs that could deliver the final knockout blow to our shared wild salmon runs. We need our Alaska lawmakers to keep the pressure on B.C. and on President Biden to establish binding protections for the rivers that feed + us. Recent actions taken to defend our salmon rivers by Alaska Lawmakers:
Take Action here. As always, thanks so much for taking the time to read this update and staying engaged – we’re all in this together. Please reach out anytime! Gunalchéesh / Háw’aa / Thank you, Bre Walker, Campaign Coordinator Salmon Beyond Borders
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SALMON BEYOND BORDERS is a campaign driven by sport and commercial fishermen, community leaders, tourism and recreation business owners and concerned citizens, in collaboration with Tribes and First Nations, united across the Alaska/British Columbia border to defend and sustain our transboundary rivers, jobs and way of life. |
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