Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery - Softcover

Lichatowich, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870717243 ISBN 13: 9780870717246

Verlag: OREGON ST UNIV PR, 2013

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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.

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Jim Lichatowich is the author of the award-winning book, Salmon without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. He has worked on Pacific salmon issues as a researcher, manager, and scientific advisor for more than forty years. He has served many years on the Independent Scientific Advisory Board for the Columbia River salmon restoration program, the State of Oregon’s Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team, and on other independent scientific review panels in British Columbia and California. He lives in Columbia City, Oregon.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OREGON ST UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870717243
• ISBN 13: 9780870717246
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
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