2017 Long Live the Kings Annual Report
By Jacques White, Long Live the Kings Executive Director
Natural wonders like the Great American Eclipse don’t just happen twice per century. They’re happening all around us, all the time. Here in the Northwest, we see these miracles daily in our waters, our mountains, and our forests: from a breaching Orca in Puget Sound to the faithful migration out to sea and return to natal rivers by our salmon and steelhead.
With your help, Long Live the Kings has been advancing science, improving management, and implementing solutions for salmon for more than 30 years. Over this period we’ve seen unprecedented regional growth, urbanization, and environmental impacts from a changing climate. But with a powerful force of donors, volunteers, advocates, and partners we’ve been able to leverage relationships to become a respected leader and steadying force, a deep keel amidst waves of change.
This year, we worked with the Washington State legislature to secure significant funding for the Hood Canal Bridge Assessment. Helping to mitigate high steelhead mortality and poor water quality at the intersection of two of our region’s most essential transportation and migration corridors, this effort represents one of the many ways we are working hard to seek bold solutions that balance the needs of fish and people in a rapidly urbanizing environment. At a time when divisiveness has come to characterize many discussions, this issue received strong bipartisan support.
The challenges we face today don’t require a choice between “us” and “them”, between the natural world and the developed one, between blue screens and blue skies. There is only one place we call The Northwest, and it includes all of us and all we do.
Through rigorous scientific analysis, unsurpassed expertise, and the irrepressible passion of concerned partners like you, Long Live the Kings is delivering outcomes to create a sustainable Northwest with a growing human population, a thriving economy, and strong, flourishing salmon runs.
Thank you for joining us on this important journey!
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