The genius in salmon to persist and thrive through change means this heart attack is still treatable
||| FROM IDAHO CAPITAL SUN |||
The Middle Fork Salmon River is the largest wild watershed in the Northwest. And thus a magnet for we who live near – and for visitors from everywhere: 2,812 square miles, 1.8 million acres, an abiding joy to visit, and then again.
The Middle Fork hosts heavy human use and certainly human impact. It also breathes without us, wielding natural freedoms that few large areas in earth’s temperate zones still can,
In 15 to 20 years, within our lifetimes, before your children reach your age now, the Middle Fork Salmon could be salmon-less.
Imagine 48,000 big salmon coming up the river each summer, spreading through tributaries to spawn, then leaving their bodies to their homes and offspring.
Imagine boating that river. Imagine the surge and sound, the fishing, the feast for fish, beasts, insects, willows, forests, and people. Imagine, as best you can, 10,000 years of it.
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