Over 50 percent of the healthy wild salmon runs in Washington are on the Olympic Peninsula.
Washington’s coastal rivers may be one of the last remaining places where cool waters will allow salmon to continue to thrive in the lower 48 in the future. However, thousands of miles of degrading forest roads, aging culverts, and encroaching development make that possibility very uncertain.
Our Primary Goals:
- Protect and restore healthy ecosystems and salmon habitat from headwaters to tidewaters.
- Support the development of community leaders and a local constituency for conservation and environmental protection.
Restoring rivers and removing barriers helps adult salmon and steelhead successfully reproduce and gives juveniles a better chance of survival.
The Harder Foundation is investing in work to connect those restoration projects and conservation efforts for greater impact, through the Coldwater Connections Campaign and other collaborative efforts.