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On June 5th, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales issued a World Environment Day challenge to the city's bureaus to become Salmon-Safe. 

Salmon-Safe today released a mid-stream update to our farm standards that primarily incorporates expanded content related to landscape-level biodiversity conservation and a revised list of "High Hazard" pesticides that are restricted for use on certified farms. The updated document also contains significant content related to harmonizing program requirements with our Salmon-Safe BC affiliate.

Salmon-Safe today released a mid-stream update to our farm standards that primarily incorporates expanded content related to landscape-level biodiversity conservation and a revised list of "High Risk" pesticides that are restricted for use on certified farms. The updated document also contains significant content related to harmonizing program requirements with our Salmon-Safe BC affiliate.

Congratulations to Costanza Testino, Salmon-Safe B.C. program manager with Pacific Salmon Foundation, taking the helm from founding BC director Michelle Tung. 

Roy Farms, a family-owned diversified farming operation in Moxee, Washington, has become the first Yakima hop grower certified for protection of water quality, water conservation, and other farming practices to protect the local watershed. Roy Farms also was one of the first Yakima Valley farms to seek Salmon-Safe certification through a pilot project utilizing a new quantitative tool to test pest management ecological impacts. The farm achieved Salmon-Safe certification on organic parcels totaling 150-acres.

Portland Parks & Recreation has been recertified by Salmon-Safe across its 10,000-acre system of parks and natural areas.

Portland Parks & Recreation(PP&R) has been re-certified by Salmon-Safe, an Oregon nonprofit promoting land management practices that help Pacific salmon thrive in west coast watersheds. The bureau was first certified by Salmon-Safe in 2004 and continues to be the only parks organization in the country designated as salmon-friendly by the certification program...

A decade after spinning off from Pacific Rivers Council, Salmon-Safe has joined the new river conservation office hub operated by Pacific Rivers and national river protection leader 

Following the Hops Trail: this two-part series from The Contemporary Sportsman follows the trail of craft brewing from Salmon-Safe certified Goschie Hops Farm near Portland to Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, featuring our Drink Like a Fish campaign with Deschutes Brewery along the way. "On a blustery autumn morning, near the small town of Silverton, Oregon, we me

Join us on Thursday, July 5, in Portland for Ecotrust's water protection themed Sundown concert. Salmon-Safe is participating in the first of this unique series of free outdoor concerts each Thursday in July.