Salmon Without Rivers
Subtitle: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781559633611
Subjects: Endangered species & extinction of species; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Management of land & natural resources; Rivers; History; Environmental Studies; Nature; Pacific salmon; Nature/Ecology; Pacific Ocean; Western & Pacific Coast states; Ecology; Fish; United States - State & Local - General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science / Zoology; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Commercial fishing; Fishery conservation; Northwest, Pacific
First sentence: Before the Endangered Species Act; before shopping centers covered streams with asphalt; before dams and dynamos harnessed the energy of wild rivers; before irrigation sucked rivers dry; before timber harvest robbed rivers of their protective forests; before fishermen's nets swept through the rivers and bays; before humans walked across the Bering Strait and into the Pacific Northwest; before glaciers gouged out Puget Sound; before the Oregon coast migrated away from Idaho; before all this, there were the salmon.