Save Our Wild Salmon will be giving away prizes to the five friends of salmon who raise the largest contributions between now and November 11th as part of an exciting fall fundraising drive - whether by organizing friends and family to donate to us in your name, or by an individual contribution.

We have valuable prizes from Patagonia, Granite Gear, craftsman John Miao of Xcalibur Rods, author David James Duncan, photographer Neil Ever Osborne, and more!

CONTEST DEADLINE: Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Recently, the Brainerd Foundation agreed to provide Save Our Wild Salmon up to $5,000 as a last quarter 2010 matching challenge with you - our supporters. We eagerly accepted the challenge, and now ask you to help us take this opportunity by making a donation today and reaching out to your network.

Your donation will support the critical projects SOS has under way.

*Building national support.
Working with our coalition members across the country, Save Our Wild Salmon is continuing to build support nationally for the restoration of wild salmon and steelhead in one of our nation's signature watersheds - the Columbia and Snake Basin - through the removal of the four outdated dams on the lower Snake River.

*Our litigation is nearing a decision in federal court.
We are coordinating the final filings by conservation and fishing plaintiffs, and working with our allies Oregon and the Nez Perce Tribe, in our challenge of the Obama Administration's dangerous salmon plan. U.S. District Judge James Redden's verdict is likely in the first quarter of 2011.

*Promoting an exciting new film.
You may have already seen the 'teaser' that we sent out last week: http://ga0.org/campaign/1oak - that portrays the epic journey of the Snake River's one-of-a-kind salmon - from the rugged coastline of southeast Alaska to the high and wild country of central Idaho.

*Stopping the "Highway to Hell"
Working with businesses and citizens, we are helping expose ExxonMobil's stealth plan to create a 'high and wide' industrial transportation corridor through the heart of the Columbia Basin - to speed strip-mining of Alberta's Boreal Forest, generating massive new carbon pollution to further warm the rivers we and salmon share, and making Exxon a permanent player in Columbia and Snake River management.

*Building support for a Snake River that works for everyone.
Our Working Snake River for Washington project is expanding support across Washington State for a Columbia/Snake settlement that works for fishermen, farmers, utilities, communities east and west, orca whales - in short, for all of Washington.