The Wild Salmon Center (WSC) is the leading group working to protect the strongest wild salmon rivers around the entire North Pacific.  They work from northern California to Alaska, as well as in Russia and Japan. The WSC focuses on salmon because they are an iconic and powerful conservation symbol, wild to the core, with an incredible life story. When you protect salmon, you protect a whole watershed and everything in it, including people. The most beautiful and important rivers of the North Pacific all depend on salmon and the nutrients they carry inland from the ocean.

The WSC played a pivotal role in political advocacy that resulted in the Army Corps of Engineers denying the permit that would have allowed the construction of Pebble Mine, which would have put one of the world’s most important wild salmon fisheries in jeopardy.  They continue to work ardently to ensure that this ill-conceived mine does not come to fruition.  This is an incredibly important piece of conservation work and the Wild Salmon Center continues to be a leading organization in combating the development of this mine.