Salmon Nation: People, Fish, and Our Common Home
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Second Edition
An Ecotrust book.
Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman
2003. 7 x 9 inches. 92 pages. Full-color and 2-color maps. B&W photographs.
ISBN 0-9676364-1-8. Paperback, $9.95.
Table of Contents
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Along the Pacific coast of North America, the fates of people and salmon have been intertwined since the end of the last Ice Age.
Salmon Nation leads readers deep into the watersheds of the West Coast in the company of six knowledgeable guides to better understand the most celebrated fish of western North America. Thoughtful essays by Native American writer Elizabeth Woody, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich, journalist Richard Manning, former commercial fisherman Freeman House, and environmental writer Seth Zuckerman trace the relationship between people and salmon from the abundance that sustained Northwest Coast cultures to the troubled world of salmon today, and depict a future of rivers restored and fishing livelihoods revived-a future still within our reach. Geographer Dorie Roth's full-color maps of the state of Pacific salmon today offer a powerful "big-picture" perspective that lends a new urgency to efforts to heal the breach between people and salmon.
Though imperiled across much of their range, salmon populations can rebound when people mend their ways. With words, maps, and images,
Salmon Nation invites its readers home to a place where people and fish can thrive together.
"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, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and ecological restorationist
"The collection of essays in this slim red book are so readable, the maps so clearly rendered, that it proves informative for both Ph.Ds in ichthyology and those who have no more contact with the fish than passing them in the grocery store."
- American Rivers magazine
About the editors
Edward C. Wolf is a writer and editor whose previous books include
The Rain Forests of Home (Island Press) and
A Tidewater Place (Mountaineers Books). He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Environmental writer Seth Zuckerman covers relations between people and the rest of nature for Ecotrust's online news service
www.tidepool.org. He lives in Petrolia, California.
About the Publisher
Ecotrust is based in Portland, Oregon. It's mission is to build Salmon Nation, a place where people and wild salmon thrive. Ecotrust's program areas include Fisheries, Forests, Food and Farms, Native Programs, and Bioregional Citizenship. For further information, visit
www.ecotrust.org.
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