“Take only what you need and let the rest go by and the fish will last forever.” p. 243
Cascade Head
Image courtesy of The Nature Conservancy
Looking south from Cascade Head, OR
USFWS - Pacific Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Loose dentalium shells
Image courtesy of Wikimedia
Dark blue wool dress - dentalium shell decoration
Image courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Chinook Salmon
Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. EPA.gov
Eastern skunk cabbage
Williamwaterway, CC BY-SA 3.0
The end of the Kwantlen First Nation salmon ceremony
Rjjago, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fish on a drying rack
Western Arctic National Parklands, CC BY 2.0
Sitka Spruce
Image courtesy of Wikimedia
Keywords
Beacon: a lighthouse or other signal for guidance (MW)
Brackish: somewhat salty (MW)
Calibrate: to adjust precisely for a particular function (MW)
Conduits: a means of transmitting or distributing (MW)
Conflagration: fire (MW)
Covetous: marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions (MW)
Dichotomy: a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities (MW)
Encroach: to advance beyond the usual or proper limits (MW)
Estuary: a water passage where the tide meets a river current (MW)
Frenetic: marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity (MW)
Isotope: one of two or more forms of a chemical element that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons in their atoms. They have different physical properties (= characteristics) but the same chemical ones. (OL)
Natal: of, relating to, or present at birth (MW)
Redd: the spawning ground or nest of various fishes (MW)
Salinity: the amount of salt contained in something (OLD)
Smolt: a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea (MW)
Vertiginous: causing or tending to cause dizziness (MW)
Weir: a fence or enclosure set in a waterway for taking fish (MW)
Additional Resources
The Fish in the Forest: Salmon and the Web of Life by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780520958265Publication Date: 2014
Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific NorthwestCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780585037714Publication Date: 1996
Forest Futures: Science, Politics, and Policy for the Next Century by Call Number: Circulating Books - 1st Floor ; SD144.A13 F67 2004ISBN: 0742531341Publication Date: 2004
Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780295989914Publication Date: 2009
Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Call Number: Circulating Books - 1st Floor ; E98.P5 J33 2022ISBN: 9781623176426Publication Date: 2022
Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River by Call Number: Circulating Books - 1st Floor ; KF8210.N37 U45 2007ISBN: 9780870711886Publication Date: 2007
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469603971Publication Date: 2014
