Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> are initiating an <a href="https://beige.party/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emergency</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/salmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salmon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TaskForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaskForce</span></a> to investigate the impact on the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/sockeye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sockeye</span></a> salmon due to last week’s <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chilcotin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chilcotin</span></a> River <a href="https://beige.party/tags/landslide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landslide</span></a>.</p><p>“Chilcotin Rivers are kind of our identity,” Nits’ilʔin (Chief) Francis Laceese, Tl’esqox said at a press conference on Tuesday.</p><p>“Same with the salmon, you know, that’s basically who we are. That’s our biggest food source.”</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ts%CC%82ilhqotin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tŝilhqotin</span></a> National Government (TNG) is calling on all levels of government, downstream First Nations, the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificSalmonCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificSalmonCommission</span></a>, and other nations and states, especially <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Alaskan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaskan</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fisheries</span></a>, to take all precautionary measures possible to conserve Tŝilhqot’in territory-bound salmon, and to immediately cease from fisheries that may impact these stocks, until the impacts from the landslide and breach are fully understood.</p><p>A massive landslide came down last Wednesday, damming the Chilcotin River, which leads into the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FraserRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FraserRiver</span></a></p><p><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10683723/b-c-landslide-first-nation-emergency-salmon-task-force/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globalnews.ca/news/10683723/b-</span><span class="invisible">c-landslide-first-nation-emergency-salmon-task-force/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ThisIsNotFine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsNotFine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildSalmonAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildSalmonAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildFirst</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NatureFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NatureFirst</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaveWildSalmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveWildSalmon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecological</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCsalmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCsalmon</span></a></p>