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• 2010
• June 10, 2010 Enviros say state broke the law (Daily Astorian)
• June 8, 2010 County forest strategy is shortsighted (Daily Astorian)
• May 7, 2010 Fishing for Answers (OPB)
• May 5, 2010 Oregon Conference Discusses Protecting Wild Salmon (Seattle Times)
• May 5, 2010 Scientist Determine Hatchery Salmon Threaten Wild Fish (OPB)
• May 4, 2010 Scientists Gather to Discuss 'State of the Salmon' (OPB)
• May 4, 2010 The state of the salmon? Not so wild (The Oregonian)
• April 24, 2010 The Taku: Our Last Chance to Get it Right (Times Colonist)
• April 23, 2010 More trees will be cut to raise revenue (The Daily Astorian)
• April 16, 2010 Fisheries: Salmon stronghold bill swims upstream (E&E)
• April 15, 2010 Cantwell Calls for Protection of Salmon "Strongholds" (Lake Stevens Journal)
  
• April 8, 2010 Conservation victory: 7,000 acres along Hoh River permanently protected (Seattle Times)
• Spring, 2010 Working to Save the Best of the Last in Alaska's Bristol Bay (Trout)
  Watch Trout Unlimited's interview with State of the Salmon biologist Sarah O'Neal
• March 31, 2010 The Taku is an opportunity to conserve wild salmon (The Vancouver Sun)
• February 17, 2010 Harrison River first Canadian 'salmon stronghold' (Agassiz Harrison Observer)
• 2009
• December 15, 2009 Oji Paper makes landmark commitment to biodiversity conservation in Japan (IUCN)
• December 6, 2009 Budget cuts could mean the end of Oregon's forest protection rules (Oregonian)
• September 10, 2009 Russian salmon fishery the first to receive sustainable certificate (The Oregonian)
• Summer, 2009 Experts Weigh in on Salmon Crisis (Salmon & Steelhead Journal)
• August 6, 2009 Russian salmon face poaching risk (The Seward Phoenix Log)
• August, 2009 Where Salmon Rule (National Geographic Magazine)
  Listen to PRI's The World radio broadcast of interview with NGM author about Kamchatka salmon
• July 31, 2009 Groups appeal clearcutting decision on Oregon's Tillamook and Clatsop state forests (The Oregonian)
• July 31, 2009 Environmental Groups Push Forestry Board to Reconsider Logging (OPB)
• July 25, 2009 Salmon Stewardship Summit brings together Russian, American teens (Oregonian)
• June 29, 2009 Fisheries Council launches new project on salmon strongholds (World Fishing Today)
  View Vancouver news video footage of Canada salmon stronghold pilot project announcement
• June 14, 2009 Spring Chinook run in Tillamook (The Oregonian)
• June 13, 2009 Salmon group holding meeting (The Daily World)
• June 3, 2009 Board OKs more logging in pair of state forests (Statesman Journal)
• May 12, 2009 Efforts to save salmon may be undone by climate change (San Luis Obispo Tribune)
• May 7, 2009 Climate change forecasts greater need for forests (Daily Astorian)
• May 3, 2009 All we do now to save salmon could mean nothing (Idaho Statesman)
• April 23, 2009 Thompson bill charts policy for wild Pacific salmon (The Times-Standard)
• April 2, 2009 Washington Senator proposes "salmon strongholds" (The Oregonian)
• March 17, 2009 The Kamchatka Peninsula offers a glimpse of nature's wonders (Canada.com/Vancouver Sun)
• February 24, 2009 Global wave of wild salmon conservation (Hokkaido Shimbun)
• February 20, 2009 In search of balance in our state forests (The Oregonian)
• February 4, 2009 Obama's climate change initiative 'best hope' for salmon (Vancouver Sun)
• January 30, 2009 Global conference to study dwindling Pacific salmon (Vancouver Courrier)
• 2008
  • December 21, 2008 Activists rethink view on logging
  • December 10, 2008 Oregon's state forests: moving beyond timber vs. fish
  • December 3, 2008 Coastal salmon at center of forest debate
  • November 12, 2008 Tentative deal will clear Klamath River for salmon (The Oregonian)
  • November 6, 2008 State forests face hard choice on logging (The Oregonian)
  • October 7, 2008 Sockeye salmon in Fraser and Skeena Rivers 'critically endangered,' report says (GLobe and Mail)
  • September 29, 2008 Bill Aims to Save the Best Salmon Habitat First (Kitsap Sun)
  • September 14, 2008 New strategy targets abundant salmon runs (AP)
  • September 8, 2008 Salmon plan favors the strongest: The Wild Salmon Center hopes to invest more in preserving healthy streams (Oregonian)
  • July 11, 2008 Study calls Hoh River 'stronghold' (Peninsula Daily News)
  • June 17, 2008 Protect our strongholds of salmon (The Eugene Register-Guard)
  • June 16, 2008 Moyle and Kitzhaber, Protecting healthiest remaining salmon ecosystems (The Sacramento Bee)
  • June 13, 2008 Protect Wild Salmon Strongholds (The Seattle Times)
    with comments from John Kitzhaber, former Oregon Governor and Wild Salmon Center board member
  • June 9, 2007 Expanding net of protection for salmon (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
    by guest columnist Devona Ensmenger, Olympic Peninsula program coordinator for the Wild Salmon Center
  • June 6, 2008 Thinking long term on salmon recovery (The Oregonian)
• 2007
  • June 9, 2007 Expanding net of protection for salmon (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
    by guest columnist Devona Ensmenger, Olympic Peninsula program coordinator for the Wild Salmon Center
• 2006
  • October 15, 2006 As featured in the New York Times, the government of Kamchatka announced they are working to designate seven tracts of wilderness as salmon-protected areas. Encompassing nine entire rivers and more than six million acres, the protected watersheds would be dedicated to producing wild salmon — for food, profit, recreation and scientific study, and as a genetic reserve of one of the world's most commercially and culturally important fish.
• 2004
  • September 14, 2004 International Salmon Festival in Sakhalin, hosted by Wild Salmon Center, Ecotrust, and the Sakhalin Wild Nature Fund. (Sakhalin Independent)
  • September 9, 2004 Salmon-protection plan upheld: Ballot measure could undo effect of forest board's decision, Salem Statesman Journal, with comment from Cascadia Salmon Biodiversity Program director David Moskowitz.
  • August 16, 2004 Giant Logjams Built to Protect Highway (Seattle Times), with comment from Wild Salmon Center salmon ecologist John McMillan.
  • July 19, 2004 Fish Tales Lure Russians, Vancouver Columbian article
  • July 6, 2004 Russian visitors to get fisheries lesson: They will learn how to promote sport fishing, tourism, Salem Statesman Journal.
  • April-June, 2004 Casting Wide: SABIT Grant Helps Intern from Magadan Explore the Fly-Fishing Industry, SABIT Exchange, Department of Commerce.
  • May 18, 2004 Russian Refuge to Help NW Salmon, Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
  • May 14, 2004 Bush's Fishy Policy, Missoula News, Missoula, Montana.
  • May 11, 2004 Wild Salmon Come Calling, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.
  • April 22, 2004 View scenes from the documentary, Kamchatka Salmon-Killing the Miracle, featuring Wild Salmon Center scientists and partners, from Discovery Channel - Canada.
  • February 13, 2004 The Wild Salmon Center's Olympic Peninsula science and conservation goals have been described in an extensive article in The Osprey, a newsletter published by the Steelhead Committee of the Federation of Fly Fishers. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
  • February 2, 2004 Wild Salmon Center Vice President of Science and Conservation, Dr. Xanthippe Augerot, was a panelist on "Collapsing Oceans and the Rising Tide of International Cooperation," on January 28, 2004 on KQED-FM, San Francisco.

    Guests on the panel included:

    • Leon Panetta, Chair of the Pew Oceans Commission
    • Xanthippe Augerot, Wild Salmon Center
    • Richard Charter, Environmental Defense
    • David Gordon, Pacific Environment

    The radio panel was connected with the event, "Collapsing Oceans and the Rising Tide of International Cooperation," which was held January 29th, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

    • Read the article on "A Commotion to Save the Ocean" in Wired magazine.
    • Listen to the broadcast on KQED-FM - search for Ocean Conservation, Wednesday, January 28, 2004.
• 2003
  • December 9, 2003 The Wild Salmon Center will participate in a statewide panel to review Oregon Department of Forestry measures to protect salmon habitat on some forest lands, Hillsboro Argus.
  • November 6, 2003 Initiative would put half of Tillamook off-limits to logging, KATU-TV, Portland.
  • November/December 2003 North Pacific: Sizing up the state of the salmon, Orion Magazine. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
  • October 23, 2003 Seminar introduces new fishing techniques, Sakhalin Independent.
  • September 29, 2003 Salmon protection plan approved in Kamchatka, Sakhalin Independent.
  • Autumn 2003 Conservation: Salmonid Sanctuary on Washington's Hoh River, NW Fly Fishing. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
  • August 29, 2003 U.N. Joins Russia's Fight to Save Western Pacific Salmon, Science. (Please contact the Wild Salmon Center for copies.)
  • August 27, 2003 Conservation groups pledge money for Russian rivers, KATU-Portland.
  • August 27, 2003Program promises Kamchatka salmon refuges, Oregonian.
  • August 13, 2003 Oregon coho recovery: perspectives on policy and political implications, Oregonian.
  • August 6, 2003 Coalition seeks to protect Bering Sea: International group wants U.S., Russia to co-manage area, Anchorage Daily News.
  • June 16, 2003 The Wild Salmon Center presented its findings at the World Summit on Salmon, held in Vancouver June 10-13, 2003, Anchorage Daily News and Tidepool.org article.
  • January 20, 2003 National Public Radio's Morning Edition broadcast two eight-minute features on the Wild Salmon Center's science and conservation programs on the Kamchatka Peninsula.