![Salmon Return Numbers: October Rush](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Salmon-3-1.png)
![Salmon Return Numbers: October Rush](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Salmon-3-1.png)
![Healing the Land](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Restoration-of-a-river-1024x562-1.jpg)
Healing the Land
For hundreds of years, the Wuda Ogwa, the site of the Bear River Massacre has undergone significant development, pollution and agricultural use. Now, the Tribe is restoring Wuda Ogwa to its organic and natural glory.
![Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/shannon-wheeler-1080x675.jpg)
Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter
A stream roiling dark with Chinook salmon in central Idaho’s wilderness high country. A throb, a pulse of life into a pristine river, the abundance of the ocean arriving in the flesh of thousands of salmon in a wild mountain river hundreds of miles inland. This was. This was life itself, for the land, for the water, for the people.
![Time to stop the bullying of salmon.](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/We-can-speed-up-salmon-and-steelhead-migrations-by-opening-up-140-miles-of-free-flowing-river.-1024x683-1-1024x675.jpg)
Time to stop the bullying of salmon.
The moment remains etched in memory. We hiked in neoprene wetsuits pulled down to our waists because it was 85 degrees, but the rivers we snorkeled in were a LOT colder.
![Eels downrunning in the fall](https://hydroreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/14972959634_69191c97a8_b-1024x675.jpg)