Columbia Riverkeeper x Jungmaven

Get your “Free the Snake” Tee

At Columbia Riverkeeper, the partnerships we build are the pillars of our work to protect the Columbia River Basin. Today, we’re excited to announce a new way to support our mission through a collaboration with Vancouver, Washington-based sustainable clothing brand, Jungmaven. Together with local artist Tomi Lahdesmaki, we’ve created the “Free the Snake” tee, a limited-edition design that gives back to the river we all cherish.

About the Tee

This special edition tee is not only a stylish way to show your love for the Columbia and Snake rivers, but it also directly contributes to our shared purpose of protecting clean water. Crafted from a hemp-cotton blend by Jungmaven and screen-printed with eco-friendly, water-based inks, the “Free the Snake” tee features custom artwork by Tomi Lahdesmaki. The design highlights the Snake River, the Columbia River’s largest tributary. Historically, the Snake River produced between one-third and one-half of the Columbia’s salmon, including millions of Chinook, steelhead, coho, and sockeye. Certain headwaters of the Snake River, high in the Idaho mountains, remain some of the largest and best salmon breeding areas in the Lower 48. 

How You Can Help

Proceeds of the “Free the Snake” tee go directly to helping us continue our work to protect and restore the river. In the 1960s and 70s, the Army Corps of Engineers built four dams on the Lower Snake River to allow barging and generate a small amount of electricity. As scientists, Tribes, and fishers all warned, these four dams decimated the Snake River’s salmon and steelhead. The dams transformed the Lower Snake River into a series of warm, shallow lakes where predators, dam turbines, and hot water kill too many migrating salmon for populations to recover. Today, Columbia Riverkeeper is proud to work in solidarity with Tribes and a coalition of nonprofits to advocate for Lower Snake River dam removal.