Three quick questions.

One great cause.

Who are you?

I'm Jack White.

I'm the executive director of Long Live the Kings.

What do you do?

Well, we're really focused on wild salmon and steelhead recovery and sustainable fishing.

We feel that it's important to engage people in a direct relationship with salmon, that just knowing that they exist isn't really enough.

We have several ways in which we work.

We're focused on increasing salmon diversity, making sure that salmon are resilient in the face of climate change.

We work to increase marine survival.

Recently, we've learned that young salmon, when they enter the marine environment, are dying in really high rates.

And we're trying to fix that.

We work to remove barriers to salmon migration, things like dams or bridges or things like the Lake Washington ship Canal that are impacting salmon.

Why do you do what you do and what does success look like?

So we we do this because we care really deeply about the resource.

Many of us grew up here and we have grown up thinking that salmon are a noble animal.

They're the the kings, which is why we have the name Long Live the Kings.

The biggest challenge with salmon is that they occupy our area here or habitat from what we call trees to seas.

So in order to make sure that salmon are healthy, we have to make sure that our upper watersheds are healthy.

Our lower watersheds and our estuaries are in good shape.

Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in good shape and the Pacific Ocean can support that.

So it's a it's a really a monumental challenge.

Secondly, we've been at destroying their habitat now for well over 100 years and doing things that really aren't that good, the salmon putting things in the water, changing the environment.

So it's going to it's not going to be turned around right away and it's going to take a lot of money and a lot of commitment.

And so one of the things that we do is to work really hard with our public appropriators in Congress and in the state Washington state legislature to get the necessary resources to help salmon in the ways that they need to be helped.

We want to make sure that people who have moved here and maybe don't know anything about that understand what the resources is understand how important it is to folks that have fishing jobs or in the fishing business, to folks like our native tribes and indigenous people who relied on salmon for tens of thousands of years, and to make sure that we understand that salmon are a canary in the coal mine, if you will, and that they're an indicator of the health of our environment and can tell us how we're managing our water, our lands, and addressing issues like climate change.