I said that we needed to protect habitat on the South Fork and make all roadless areas wilderness. I also said that we needed to start removing dams from the Snake River. This last idea was considered blasphemy, especially in the mid 1970's when the dams had just been completed, but many fish biologists now believe it's the only way to truly save the salmon runs. I was blasted, of course, for my ideas on salmon and water quality, but the passage of years hasn't changed my mind. Presently I live on a fjord in Alaska surrounded by mountains, the vast majority of which have never seen the tracks of a ski.
Glaciers here flow to the sea and clear streams rush past on both sides of our home.
The salmon fishing is spectacular, moose are ubiquitous, and my boys have treed a black bear in our yard. Brown bears cross nearby to feed on salmon. Above the fjord where we live I can put up new ski routes in the Chugach Range where only mountain goats climb. Sometimes returning I find fresh wolf tracks on top of mine. I live where there are still unclimbed mountains and unrun rivers, like the Kenai River, one of the world's great salmon streams, that was just kayaked source to sea for the first time in 1999.