Avis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year, Plastic Plankton, and Bike Rock, Books 1, 2, and 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, environmental climate adventure fiction. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them. She encourages you to write to your representative (house.gov) and ask her or him to call for the EPA to veto the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, home of the world's largest wild salmon run, to give the salmon and our planet a fighting chance.