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Totem salmon : life lessons from another species / Freeman House.

House, Freeman. (Author).

Summary:

"Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book - call it the zen of salmon restoration - traces the evolution of the Mattole River valley community in northern California as it learns to undo the results of rapacious logging practices; to invent ways to trap wild salmon for propagation; and to forge alliances between people who sometimes agree on only one thing - that there is nothing on earth like a Mattole king salmon." "House tells the story of the annual fishing rituals of the indigenous peoples of the Klamath River in northern California, one that relies on little-known early ethnographic studies and on indigenous voices - a remarkable story of self-regulation that unites people and place. And his riffs on the colorful early history of American hatcheries, on property rights, and on the "happiness of the state" show precisely why he's considered a West Coast visionary."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0807085480 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9780807085486 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 0807085499
  • ISBN: 9780807085493
  • Physical Description: xiii, 228 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228).
Formatted Contents Note:
Acknowledgments and Apologies -- In Salmon's Water -- Ghosts and Presences -- Mountains in Motion -- Rites of Regulation -- The Clients of Science -- At the Heart of Creation -- In Place -- The Happiness of the State -- The Watershed -- Substantial and Genuine Virtue -- Epilogue: The Capacity to Become Human.

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Subject:
Salmon.
Mattole River (California) > Environmental conditions.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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