Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society, Inc.

The Steelhead and Salmon Conservation Society was established April 22, 2010 (Earthday) by dedicated conservationists to protect, conserve and restore our natural resources and outdoor heritage. (Scroll down to view content)

Our Legacy: Web of Life Unique to the Pacific Northwest

From the mountaintops to the sea; the diversity of natural environments; the mountains, rain forests, high desert, scrublands, prairies, Puget Sound, San Juan Islands and the Columbia River as it weaves it’s way to the coastal areas, supports an incredible array of plants and animals and the bounty of the magnificent anadromous fishes.

Wild steelhead and salmon are the icons of the way of life stretching back with the native peoples to the times of their ancestors and reaching into the future of our descendants.

Our responsibility is to assure the web of life unique to North America's west coast remains healthy and abundant, for surely our stewardship is the greatest gift we can leave as a legacy for future generations.

The SSCS is the only organization dedicated to a science-based, ecosystem protection and management approach that integrates the human component on a landscape scale.

Free flowing rivers and clean air essential to wild salmon and eagles

SSCS Logo design by Alan Steeves and Richard Mayer

USGS: Water Watch

Stream and river flow data (real time)

Total Pageviews since January 1, 2011

SSCS Facebook Logo

Reference documents:

Introduction

2011 SSCS Annual Report Powerpoint Presentation

2010 Annual Report

SSCS History - Regularly Updated

Chehalis Basin PowerPoint Presentation

Frequently Asked Questions

Membership
(Application)

The Leader (Current Issue using page flip technology for ease of reading)

Resolution 51810
(Restore Natural Processes)

Resolution 11011
(Science-based Studies)

Chehalis Basin References

Salmon Feedlot Impacts

General References

Legal Disclaimer

SSCS Letters to the Editors:

The Chronicle (Lewis County): SSCS Supported Chehalis Basin Projects. (December 30, 2010)

SSCS Project Endorsements:

2010 SSCS Project Endorsements

Project endorsements in 2011:

New Baker River hydro project powerhouse to aid salmon, boost power output (January, 2011)

Chehalis River Basin Land Trust (February, 2011)

Cowlitz River - Salmonid Restoration (March 2011)

Tongass National Forest Conservation - Sportsman's Alliance for Alaska (May 2011)

Volcano Country (SW Washington) rivers - Wild and Scenic Rivers Act designation (June 2011)

Click on photos below for SSCS sponsors' websites:

101 Multimedia

Alpine Experience

British Columbia Federation of Fly Fishers

Flyfishers' Arte and Publishing

Lighthawk - flying for the environment

Natural Settings Digital Imaging and Design

SSCS Executive Board:

President and CEO: Ric Abbett

Vice President: Don Schluter

Secretary and Treasurer: Vacant

Conservation Director: Joe Durham

Conservation Director: Vacant

Conservation Director: Terry Turner

International Conservation Director: Dr Alan Steeves

Senior Communications and Marketing Advisor: Richard Mayer

Senior Marine Biologist Advisor: Dr. Alexandra Morton

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SSCS Administration

1. Bylaws: Approved January 2011

Ongoing research

More regarding Dr. Alexandra Morton and her ongpong research

Interesting videos

Salmon Recovery Fund:
2011 Biannual Salmon Recovery Conference (Great Wolf Lodge)

Farmed Atlantic Salmon:
Farmed Salmon Exposed
Farrmed Salmon - Clayoquot Sound

Columbia / Snake River Salmon Recovery:
Salmon: Running the Gauntlet (PBS, Save Our Wild Salmon, others)

Pebble Mine: Bristol Bay, Alaska:
Sig Hansen (Deadliest Catch) Opposes Pebble Mine
Pebble Mine is a Trojan Horse

SSCS Announcements:

The Leader: October Issue: "Cohen Commission Inquiry", "Living with Western Washington Rivers", "International Farmed Salmon"

SSCS events being planned:

1. November 18, 2011: SSCS-hosted Living with Western Washington Rivers Symposium: Veterans' Memorial Museum: Chehalis, Washington

2. May 29-31, 2012: SSCS-hosted International Farmed Salmon Symposium: Universiity of British Columbia: Vancouver, Washington.

Recent SSCS Official Communication with elected and appointed Officials

SSCS letter to Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority (Terry Willis) - SSCS comments regarding the perceived ineffectiveness of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority

Archived Flood News

Local and around the world

HUFFPOST: A missed opportunity to rebuild Louisiana

KING 5: Army Corps of Engineers release Howard Hanson Dam flood water to keep dam from failing

KING 5: GPS installed to monitor movement of Auburn's earthen Howard Hanson Dam

KING 5: Western Washington rivers dropping (January 2011)

KOMO 4: 2007 and 2009 floods, impacts and causes

Oregon's Sandy River flood (January 2011)

CNN: Brazil Floods

BBC News: Australia Floods

CNN: Australia Floods and more

Home Video: Flash Flood in Australia January 2011

Washington Post: Pakistan Floods and more

Dams and levees prove ineffective as Mississippi River flood "control" strategies

Dams and levees don't work to control Mississippi flooding.
Wetlands and other natural processes do. (SeattleTimes.com)

Ongoing Project: Chehalis River Basin Flood Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration

SSCS volunteers are working with Chehalis River basin residents, business owners, elected officials and others on flood risk management and ecosystem restoration efforts in the uniquely important Chehalis River basin, the second largest river basin in all of Washington State.

Phase 2B Report - April 14 2011

Phase 2B Report - April 14, 2011

Phase 2B - Questions and comments

Phase 2B - Questions and comments

National Weather Service: Chehalis River flows (measured and predicted)

Proposed location for Chehalis River dam

Prime salmon and steelhead spawning and rearing habitat (May 31, 2010)

FEMA map 7-Chehalis-Centralia Airport. Click map for 15 Lewis County FEMA maps (52MB)

Orange = floodway, Yellow = floodplain

SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 1: Protect human lives, safety, health and property

December 2007 rainstorm claimed six human lives and thousands of livestock

SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 2: Ensure economic stability

Interstate commerce delayed ($4 million per day) - click on photo for economic impacts and synthesis of Chehalis River basin reports (February, 2008)

SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 3: Protect and restore Chehalis River basin natural spawning fish

Adult male Coho "silver" salmon in natural habitat - click on photo for Endangered Species Act

SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 3: Protect and restore Chehalis River basin wildlife

Roosevelt Elk rely year around on a healthy Chehalis River basin.

Chehalis River Basin property damage - Cause 1: Development in the floodplain

Catastrophic floods: 1996, 2007, 2009

Chehalis River Basin property damage - Cause 2: Steep slope clear-cut logging practices

Willapa Hills mass wasting. Photo made available by Natural Settings and LightHawk

SSCS Recommendation: Basinwide - Restored Natural Processes - Immediate Results

Cost-effective, basin-wide restoration of forestlands, floodplains, wetlands. Will put local skilled and unskilled residents to work immediately. (Photo courtesy of Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, United States) - click on photo for SSCS Resolution 51810

Dam Proponents' Recommendation: Destructive, ineffective, costly, not before 2050

Opposed by SSCS - Two in-channel earthen hydropower dams, each larger than the Skookumchuck Reservoir pictured above, Inundated spawning habitat, no fish passage, impacted downstream water quality, ineffective, cost-prohibitive - click on photo for One Voice website

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