Sustaining Salmon in a Rapidly Urbanizing Environment
A Presentation by LLTK Executive Director Jacques White
Thursday 9/12 @ Orcas Center | 6:30 p.m.
Glenwood Springs Salmon Hatchery Open House
Sunday 9/15 @ Glenwood Springs Salmon Hatchery (1649 Olga Rd) | 10 a.m.—12 p.m.
Science displays; hatchery tours; hundreds of returning Chinook salmon. Great for families and kids!
Glenwood Springs Hatchery
On a former fruit orchard overlooking Orcas Island’s East Sound, Glenwood Springs Salmon Hatchery is the site of something remarkable: the creation of a Chinook salmon run where none existed before. Begun in a stream in 1978 with eggs from a state hatchery, the run has been propagated from returning adult fish since 1982—and because no wild Chinook originate in the San Juan Islands, this new salmon run serves commercial and sports fishers while posing no threat to endangered fish.
Salmon have been a critical component of nature for eons and the center of human culture in the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. Now we find ourselves at a crossroads where rapid urbanization and competing demands for space and water are pushing this wild and sentinel species to the edge of extinction. Long Live the Kings Executive Director Jacques White talks about the state of our salmon and what is being done now to manage and restore them for the long run in the Salish Sea.
