Valued TU members:

Please take a few moments when you get an opportunity to visit and click through TU's new Pacific salmon and steelhead website, www.whywild.org. Increasingly, we are trying to link together our habitat, hydropower, hatcheries and harvest work to strengthen our effectiveness for Pacific salmon and steelhead, wherever they swim. Further, and perhaps even more importantly, we're trying to link our staff work with our membership, and to join our strengths to further our mission more effectively. As you'll see, we are just getting things rolling on this site, and that is where you can help.

If you visit the "TU People" section, for example, you can see text and photos from the Tualatin Valley Chapter's project on Pegleg Falls on the Collawash River here in western Oregon. We'd like to spotlight your chapter's projects too, so let me know when you have a nice brief writeup and good photos like these and I will get them posted. The TU People section is YOUR section, so it can be largely up to you and your chapter how it takes shape.

Lastly, take a look at the TUPOV - "TU Point of View" section, accessible through the home page link. This will be your monthly chance to see what TU staff is working on, why we're doing it, and what's ahead. Currently, you'll notice this update is limited to Portland office staff. We will be adding staff updates gradually from our other Pacific salmon and steelhead offices, until we've got them all or I died trying. That means staff in California, Alaska, Idaho, and wherever else TU pops up in between.

We'll leave it there. This site is new, experimental, and subject to change depending on how the winds of opinion, reaction, effectiveness and feedback blow. So let us know your thoughts. Thanks.

Alan