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Salmon Nation: People, Fish and Our Common Home

Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman

Salmon Nation: People, Fish and Our Common Home takes you behind the headlines in the company of six knowledgeable guides to a deeper understanding of the most celebrated fish of western North America. Thoughtful essays trace the relationship between people and salmon from the days of abundance that sustained Northwest Coast native cultures to the troubled world of salmon today and suggest a future of rivers restored and fishing livelihoods revived — a future still within our reach. Full-color maps of the state of Pacific salmon, published here for the first time, offer a powerful "big picture" perspective that lends new urgency to efforts to heal the breach between people and salmon.

"Salmon Nation is an essential book for understanding the situation of these magnificent, magical fish in the big picture of history and economy. The maps, the range of accessible and informed essays, make it invaluable."
—Gary Snyder

"Much of public policy in Oregon in the next twenty years will relate to this issue. After reading Salmon Nation, you'll have a much better understanding why."
—Jonathan Nicholas, The Oregonian

Salmon Nation includes:

• "Recalling Celilo" by Elizabeth Woody. Native peoples' relationship with the fish.
• " Muddied Waters, Muddled Thinking" by Jim Lichatowich and Seth Zuckerman. Salmon's loss of habitat and how it resulted from Westerners' world view.
• " Ghost Town" by Richard Manning. The damage that hatcheries and fish farms cause to wild fish and the human communities that rely on them.
• "The Six Species of Salmon Nation: A Portfolio of Maps" by Dorie Roth. The status of chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, and steelhead, river by river, up and down the West Coast.
• "Keep the Gift Moving" by Freeman House. One man's experience as a commercial fisherman, and how it led him to work to restore salmon.
• "Toward a New Salmon Economy" by Seth Zuckerman. How residents of the West Coast are renewing the bond between people and fish.

Details:
Salmon Nation: People, Fish and Our Common Home
7.5 x 9.5 inches, 92 pages & 6 full-color maps
©2003, 1999 Ecotrust
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