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Salmon Without Rivers A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis

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ISBN-10: 1559633611

ISBN-13: 9781559633611

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: James A. Lichatowich, James A. Lichatowich

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"Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." --from the introduction From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the distant oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by any other animal. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the natural productivity of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 335
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English