The Northwest salmon crisis a documentary history
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This acclaimed volume offers a key to understanding the historic roots of one of today's most closely watched environmental issues, the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The history of the current salmon crisis is long and disturbingly consistent, with concern over declining salmon runs beginning in the 1800s. This book focuses on the human actions--and failures to act--that have helped drive many wild salmon stocks in the Pacific Northwest to the brink of extinction. For this first documentary history of the salmon crisis, knowledgeable observers of salmon history have chosen and commented upon the documents that they feel most clearly reveal the causes and implications of today's crisis. The eighty documents span a period of 140 years and address such issues as habitat, hatcheries, dams, fisheries, Indian fishing rights, and watershed management. Together, these mileposts in the sorry journey of the salmon provide a compelling perspective on an environmental crisis of growing national concern. |
| Author(s): | Joseph Cone , Sandy Ridlington |
| Document: | Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ] |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Published: | 1996 |
| Physical Description: | v, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Genre: | History |
| Contents: | The world of Columbia River salmon: nature, culture and the Great River of the west Crosscurrents: salmon in the wild and hatcheries Harcheries: an artificial solution The creed of a salmon capitalist The scramble to regulate fisheries What happens when the public manages technology Army Corps and Congress: true believers in dams Science ignored for development Developers consider costs and benefits What the Michell Act promised the salmon We're from the government and we're here to help International and regional cooperation overlooks salmon Justice Douglas decides for Udall and the Clearwater The problems with hatcheries A fisher's campaign for conservation Management of wood is critical to salmon Does planning help? What the treaties promised the Indians Supreme Court uupholds Indians' rights Judge Boldt defends fishing rights The courts tackle habitat An early instance of supplementation Attempts to foster supplementation run afoul of politics The role of race in salmon policy A case study of a people and their resources Should ecology restrain the economy? A call for balance Northwest Power Act: fish coequal with hydropower Hatchery operations show bias States may not horde natural resources Corut defined 'equitable treatment' of salmon A shared resource: the tragedy of the commons New regional program failed to restore runs Court says countil violated law The alarm that was heard: the Crossroads Report Wild fish receive special consideration Snake River salmon listed under Endangered Species Act Overhaul of Columbia River operations needed What have northwest residents learned? Invisible parks for the northwest salmon: nowhere to run River of change: salmon, time, and crisis on the Columbia River |
| Subjects: | Endangered species, Endangered species Northwest, Pacific History Sources, Fishes Conservation, Fishes Conservation Northwest, Pacific History Sources, History, Pacific Northwest, Pacific salmon, Pacific salmon Effect of habitat modification on, Pacific salmon Effect of habitat modification on Northwest, Pacific History Sources, Pacific salmon Nort |
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