Salmon People And Place

Author : Jim Lichatowich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822040760357

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Salmon, People, and Place by Jim Lichatowich Pdf

Each year wild Pacific salmon leave their oceanic feeding grounds and swim hundreds of miles back to their home rivers. The salmon's annual return is a place-defining event in the Pacific Northwest, with immense ecological, economic, and social significance. However, despite massive spending, efforts to significantly alter the endangered status of salmon have failed. In Salmon, People, and Place, acclaimed fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich eloquently exposes the misconceptions underlying salmon management and recovery programs that have fueled the catastrophic decline in Northwest salmon populations for more than a century. These programs will continue to fail, he suggests, so long as they regard salmon as products and ignore their essential relationship with their habitat. But Lichatowich offers hope. In Salmon, People, and Place he presents a concrete plan for salmon recovery, one based on the myriad lessons learned from past mistakes. What is needed to successfully restore salmon, Lichatowich states, is an acute commitment to healing the relationships among salmon, people, and place. A significant contribution to the literature on Pacific salmon, Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery is an essential read for anyone concerned about the fate of this Pacific Northwest icon.

Author : Edward C. Wolf,Seth Zuckerman
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 096763640X

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Salmon Nation by Edward C. Wolf,Seth Zuckerman Pdf

AUTOGRAPHED BY ELIZABETH WOODSY.

Author : Thomas P. Quinn
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774842433

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The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout by Thomas P. Quinn Pdf

The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout explains the patterns of mate choice, the competition for nest sites, and the fate of the salmon after their death. It describes the lives of offspring during the months they spend incubating in gravel, growing in fresh water, and migrating out to sea to mature. This thorough, up-to-date survey should be on the shelf of everyone with a professional or personal interest in Pacific salmon and trout. Written in a technically accurate but engaging style, it will appeal to a wide range of readers, including students, anglers, biologists, conservationists, legislators, and armchair naturalists.

Author : James A. Lichatowich
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1559633611

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Salmon Without Rivers by James A. Lichatowich Pdf

"Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." --from the introduction From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the distant oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by any other animal. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the natural productivity of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho has declined by eighty percent. The decline of Pacific salmon to the brink of extinction is a clear sign of serious problems in the region. In Salmon Without Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich offers an eye-opening look at the roots and evolution of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of factors over the past century and a half that have led to the salmon's decline, and examines in depth the abject failure of restoration efforts that have focused almost exclusively on hatcheries to return salmon stocks to healthy levels without addressing the underlying causes of the decline. The book: describes the evolutionary history of the salmon along with the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest over the past 40 million years considers the indigenous cultures of the region, and the emergence of salmon-based economies that survived for thousands of years examines the rapid transformation of the region following the arrival of Europeans presents the history of efforts to protect and restore the salmon offers a critical assessment of why restoration efforts have failed Throughout, Lichatowich argues that the dominant worldview of our society -- a worldview that denies connections between humans and the natural world -- has created the conflict and controversy that characterize the recent history of salmon; unless that worldview is challenged and changed, there is little hope for recovery. Salmon Without Rivers exposes the myths that have guided recent human-salmon interactions. It clearly explains the difficult choices facing the citizens of the region, and provides unique insight into one of the most tragic chapters in our nation's environmental history.

Author : David Suzuki,Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781553651635

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Salmon Forest by David Suzuki,Sarah Ellis Pdf

During a walk in the woods with her father, Kate learns about the life cycle of the sockeye salmon, as well as its place in the larger circle of life.

Author : Hugh W. McKervill
Publisher : Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Pacific salmon fisheries British Columbia History
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002039430

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The Salmon People by Hugh W. McKervill Pdf

Author : Amy Gulick
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1680512382

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The Salmon Way by Amy Gulick Pdf

Long before it was the "oil state," Alaska was the "salmon state" Emphasizes that salmon protection is good for Alaska Alaskans have deeply personal relationships with their salmon. These remarkable fish provide a fundamental source of food, livelihood, and identity, and connect generations and communities throughout the state. Yet while salmon are integral to the lives of many Alaskans, the habitat they need to thrive is increasingly at risk as communities and decision makers evaluate large-scale development proposals.The Salmon Way celebrates and explores the relationships between people and salmon in Alaska. Through story and images, author Amy Gulick shows us that people from wildly different backgrounds all value a salmon way of life. In researching her new book, Amy spent time with individuals whose lives are inextricably linked with salmon. Commercial fishermen take her on as crew; Alaska Native families teach her the art of preserving fish and culture; and sport fishing guides show her where to cast her line as well as her mind. Each experience expands our understanding of the "salmon way" in Alaska. Learn more atwww.thesalmonway.org

Author : Betty Waterton
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773065755

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A Salmon for Simon by Betty Waterton Pdf

Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own. All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go. This simple story, with its evocative watercolor paintings of the Northwest Coast, was an environmental fable before its time when it was first published in 1978. But its true power rests in the magical combination of text and pictures, which have made it a best-selling classic.

Author : David Montgomery
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786739936

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King of Fish by David Montgomery Pdf

The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and near-extinction of the salmon as a story of changing landscapes. Montgomery shows how a succession of historical experiences -first in the United Kingdom, then in New England, and now in the Pacific Northwest -repeat a disheartening story in which overfishing and sweeping changes to rivers and seas render the world inhospitable to salmon. In King of Fish , Montgomery traces the human impacts on salmon over the last thousand years and examines the implications both for salmon recovery efforts and for the more general problem of human impacts on the natural world. What does it say for the long-term prospects of the world's many endangered species if one of the most prosperous regions of the richest country on earth cannot accommodate its icon species? All too aware of the possible bleak outcome for the salmon, King of Fish concludes with provocative recommendations for reinventing the ways in which we make environmental decisions about land, water, and fish.

Author : Judith Roche,Meg McHutchison
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774806869

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First Fish, First People by Judith Roche,Meg McHutchison Pdf

This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 duotone photos. Line drawings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Adam Weymouth
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780345811813

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Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth Pdf

A stunning new voice in nature writing makes an epic journey along the Yukon River to give us the stories of its people and its protagonist--the king salmon, or the Chinook--and the deepening threat to a singular way of life, in a lyrical, evocative and captivating narrative. The Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chinook is the most highly prized among the five species of Pacific salmon for its large size and rich, healthy oils. It has long since formed the lifeblood of the economy and culture along the Yukon--there are few communities that have been so reliant on a single source. Now, as the region contends with the effects of a globalized economy, climate change, fishing quotas and the general drift towards urban life, the health and numbers of the Chinook are in question, as is the fate of the communities that depend on them. Travelling in a canoe along the Yukon River with the migrating salmon, a three-month journey through untrammeled wilderness, Adam Weymouth traces the profound interconnectedness of the people and the Chinook through searing portraits of the individuals he encounters. He offers a powerful, nuanced glimpse into the erosion of indigenous culture, and into our ever-complicated relationship with the natural world. Weaving in the history of the salmon run and their mysterious life cycle, Kings of the Yukon is extraordinary adventure and nature writing and social history at its most compelling.

Author : Jay Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500890405

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Conversation with a Salmon by Jay Nicholas Pdf

Wild Pacific salmon, by government decree, are likely the most "saved" species since their demise commenced with the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s.As a retired salmon biologist who devoted much of my professional career to writing high-profile salmon conservation plans, I wonder if we're finished; I wonder if we have made the world right for salmon, yet. In this imaginative story, I ask a great hen salmon what she thinks about my life-work and humankind's salmon conservation promise. Conversation With A Salmon is a cautionary tale, accompanied by my original watercolor illustrations. In his Foreword, Jim Lichatowitch (Salmon Without Rivers; Salmon, People and Place) says, "the story is unique, revealing a great truth about the human-salmon relationship that merits a voice alongside every scholarly analysis of the salmon's history and future." This is a book for parents, educators and students: Whether you care deeply or are simply curious about the salmon's future, read-on for a perspective you've never seen in newspaper headlines or scientific journals. This book is a story that considers the Salmon's perspective of humanity's collective efforts to save wild Pacific Salmon, told in a way that is understandable by readers (and listeners) of any age. This surprising perspective should give us all pause to reflect on our future efforts to conserve this magnificent wild species in rivers across the Pacific Northwest.Jim Lichatowitch (Salmon Without Rivers, Salmon, People, and Place). Jim says, "I have read and re-read this story many times, and spent a lot of time thinking about its message. The story is unique, revealing a great truth about the human-salmon relationship that merits a voice alongside every scholarly analysis of the salmon's history and future."

Author : Freeman House
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0807085499

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Totem Salmon by Freeman House Pdf

Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book-call it the zen of salmon restoration-traces the evolution of the Mattole River Valley community in northern California as it learns to undo the results of rapacious logging practices; to invent ways to trap wild salmon for propagation; and to forge alliances between people who sometimes agree on only one thing-that there is nothing on earth like a Mattole king salmon. House writes from streamside: "I think I can hear through the cascades of sound a systematic plop, plop, plop, as if pieces of fruit are being dropped into the water. Sometimes this is the sound of a fish searching for the opening upstream; sometimes it is not. I breathe quietly and wait." Freeman House's writing about fish and fishing is erotic, deeply observed, and simply some of the best writing on the subject in recent literature. House tells the story of the annual fishing rituals of the indigenous peoples of the Klamath River in northern California, one that relies on little-known early ethnographic studies and on indigenous voices-a remarkable story of self-regulation that unites people and place. And his riffs on the colorful early history of American hatcheries, on property rights, and on the "happiness of the state" show precisely why he's considered a West Coast visionary. Petitions to list a dozen West Coast salmon runs under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act make saving salmon an issue poised to consume the Pacific West. "Never before, said Federal officials, has so much land or so many people been given notice that they will have to alter their lives to restore a wild species" (New York Times, 2/27/98). Totem Salmon is set to become the essential read for this newest chapter in our relations with other wild things.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078537

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Salmon by Mark Kurlansky Pdf

WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRÉ SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this extraordinary fish. As international bestseller Mark Kurlansky reveals, salmon persist as a barometer for the health of our planet. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature can be seen in their harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle. Full of all Kurlansky’s characteristic curiosity and insight, Salmon is a magisterial history of a wondrous creature. ‘An epic, environmental tragedy’ Spectator ‘These creatures have nurtured our imagination as surely as our bodies. This book does them justice!’ Bill McKibben

Author : Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781553797401

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The Sockeye Mother by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson Pdf

To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make their home. The Sockeye Mother explores how the animals, water, soil, and seasons are all intertwined.