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Goings-On at Earth Ministry Summer 2020
Category: Rivers and Salmon News
Earth Ministry/WAIPL Monthly Newsletter 7.07.20
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Lummi members have new ally in fight to bring captive Southern Resident orca home
She will be home in 2020. That was the word from members of the Lummi Nation who have not given up on their efforts to free the captive Southern Resident orca some call "Lolita" from her cement tank at the Miami Seaquarium. A nonprofit law group has now joined the fight, bringing new legal tactics to the battle.
Environmental groups question why important decisions are moving forward as public is distracted with COVID-19 closures
This article in the Inlander features Pastor Liv Larson Andrews from Salem Lutheran Church in Spokane. A big shout out to Pastor Liv for engaging in a short DEIS process during a public health crisis where in person public hearings could not be held.
Join Us (Virtually) for Earth Day
While we know there is much on your minds and hearts these days, many of you have written to Earth Ministry/WAIPL asking about activities for Earth Day. It fills us with joy to know that you are continuing to take…
Celebrating Legislative Wins
We know that much is weighing on your heart and mind in these days filled with public health precautions. We continue to hold in our prayers those who are sick or at high risk, our health care responders, everyone at…
Event seeks to create a better future for lower Snake River
At a “Spokane Loaves and Fishes,” event on Tuesday night at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist a panel of farmers, commercial fishermen, Northwest tribal members and activists discussed issues concerning the dams and salmon conservation on the Columbia-Snake River Basin.
Columbia River Treaty talks offer hope for river, native peoples
Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light Executive Director LeeAnne Beres and former Earth Ministry board member Rev. John Rosenberg coauthored this OpEd in the Seattle Times about the upcoming renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty, an intentional treaty between the…
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Calling All Idahoans: Help Protect Wild Salmon
The Snake, Salmon, and Clearwater rivers, and salmon that need a healthy river to survive, are in trouble. Each year, wild salmon and steelhead return to cool Idaho mountain streams to spawn. This salmon run is an integral part of…
Help protect salmon and the Snake River
The Columbia River, and salmon that need a healthy river to survive, are in trouble. Each year, wild salmon and steelhead return to the waters of the Columbia and Snake rivers to spawn. This salmon run is an integral part…
Free the Snake Floatilla
Hundreds of boaters gathered at the Free the Snake Floatilla to say with one clear voice that it's time to free the Snake River from outdated low-value dams. Earth Ministry/WAIPL joined our partners at Save Our Wild Salmon at this…
Salmon ground is holy ground
Lutheran Bishop Martin Wells' OpEd regarding the Columbia River Treaty, which outlines the moral and ethical issues at stake in modernizing the Treaty, as well as key principles that must be addressed in its renegotiation.