Healthy salmon populations deliver irreplaceable benefits to the peoples and places of the Pacific Northwest. Salmon are vital to the cultures and economies of many Northwest tribes and an essential food source for critically endangered Southern Resident orca.
Our ways of life as a region depend upon protecting wild salmon from extinction and restoring resilient populations.
Northwest Artists Against Extinction is a project of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition.
Restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River, by removing four federal dams, is essential for protecting native Northwest salmon from extinction. This urgent conservation initiative represents one of our nation’s great salmon and river restoration opportunity today.
We are thrilled to announce Autumn Spawn is now available order on Amazon! All proceeds go to SOS. We are deeply thankful to Robin Koontz for donating this book to support SOS' work to recover salmon and steelhead in the Columbia-Snake River Basin!
You can read more about the origin story of this project on Robin's blog: Save Our Wild Salmon and Creating Autumn Spawn, A Salmon's Journey.
Learn more about NWAAE artist, Robin Koontz here.
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Pick a salmon template • Design/color it
Send the salmon and a message to elected officials
Visit our Artist Partners page to learn more about each artist, with bios, images, and artist statements.
