Growing up in Everson, my father and my brothers fished in the Nooksack River every summer. The salmon supplemented our meager family income and the time we spent on the river and the evenings around the dinner table sampling the catch of the day were valuable times that us kids spent with our dad.

Now the salmon runs don’t take place until September when the kids are in school, and I haven’t been able to pass down his family tradition to my own sons. I would like to reverse this trend so that other families will have the opportunity to fish with their fathers, too.

That’s why professionally I’ve fought to protect our environment, by serving on the Bellingham Bay Foundation, the Salmon Defense Board and as the former Natural Resources Director for the Nooksack Tribe. I’ve also been appointed by the Puget Sound Partnership Leadership Council to the Puget Sound Partnership Ecosystem Board and by Governor Gary Locke to the Washington Forest Practices Board.

“Kelly has spent many years working diligently on salmon recovery and led the efforts to craft a countywide salmon recovery plan.

Our county’s salmon stocks have been steadily declining, almost to the point of extinction. Without Kelly’s aggressive efforts to change this direction

our county would be losing one of its greatest natural assets.”Whatcom County Councilmember Laurie Caskey-Schreiber

Bob Kelly will fight toprotect the environment

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