ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
In pursuing salmon watershed restoration, or in working to clean up polluted watersheds, and in many of our other IFR programs, there are a number of reports, studies and guidelines that we have found helpful – but that are getting harder to find anywhere on the Internet. We are posting them here for our own use as well as to help keep them current in these debates:

Salmon: Guidances on How to Analyze Watershed Project Costs vs. Benefits

• A Letter from Economists to Governors of Oregon (Kitzhaber), California (Wilson), Washington (Loche) and Alaska (Knowles) and Premier of British Columbia (Clark). (Sept. 9, 1998) [77 signatures] PDF

• A Letter from Economists to President Bush and the Governors of Eleven Western States Regarding the Economic Importance of the West’s Natural Environment. (December 3, 2003) [95 signatures] PDF

Salmon: Values to Society

Columbia Basin:

• The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Economic Burden of Salmon Declines in the Columbia River Basin (IFR 1996). PDF
• Statement on the Value of Columbia Basin Salmon (IFR, PCFFA 2022). PDF

The Klamath Basin:

• The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Economic Burden of Salmon Declines in the Klamath Basin (IFR 1998). PDF

State of California:

• Southwick Associates, 2012. Report on the economic impacts of salmon in the State of California. PDF

State of Oregon:

• Statement on the Value of Oregon Salmon (IFR, PCFFA 2022) PDF

Salmon & Toxics:

• Diminishing Returns: Salmon Decline and Pesticides (Oregon Pesticide Education Network (OPEN), 1999). Executive Summary | Full Report

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