A New Approach to Salmon Recovery in North America

Taking Action Together

The Resilient Salmon Initiative is a call to action—a collaborative effort to connect people and organizations, strengthen our shared voice, and mobilize the government and philanthropic support needed to scale real, on-the-ground resilience solutions across the region. This work demands a collective, urgent response, and we are committed to stepping up together.

Finding Strength in Collaboration

Pacific salmon are running out of time, and we are running out of time to help them. Across the United States and Canada, their shared habitats and waters are changing faster than our current systems can keep up. The future of salmon depends on coordinated actions at a scale we’ve never attempted before. Innovative science, forward-looking management, stronger collaboration across borders, and major new investments are essential if salmon and those who depend on them are to thrive in a changing climate.

Watershed and basin-level resilience projects have laid important groundwork, but it’s only by connecting them across salmon’s range, south to north and from trees to seas, can we see the entire picture.

Each of us holds part of the solution and by bringing our perspectives together, we can leverage our work, identify the most effective actions and achieve lasting benefits for both the salmon and our future.

Our Vision

What's at Stake

  • Salmon populations and ecosystems
  • Rights, title, and traditions of hundreds of distinct Tribes and First Nations
  • More than 39,100 fishing jobs and $4.7 billion in annual economic output

“I don’t believe in magic. I believe in the sun and the stars, the water, the tides, the floods, the owls, the hawks flying, the river running, the wind talking. They’re measurements. They tell us how healthy things are. How healthy we are. Because we and they are the same. That’s what I believe in. Those who learn to listen to the world that sustains them can hear the message brought forth by the salmon.”

Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually Indian Tribe)

Our Partners