The new Patagonia catalog (out yesterday) has a full page spread by Steven Hawley entitled “The Idaho Tide.” It eloquently connects the wolves of Idaho’s Frank Church Wilderness with Snake River salmon and the southern residents, and it includes a great paragraph (below) with a quote-worthy line by Ken Balcomb:
“I think any reasonable biologist will tell you the only way to take advantage of [the intact salmon habitat left on the Snake River] is to tear out the dams.” — Ken Balcomb, Center for Whale Research
The full text of the piece is appended (and archived as a PDF). Inspired readers can take action here (too bad such a link wasn’t provided in the catalog!)…
Thanks to Dan Drais of Save Our Wild Salmon for the heads up on this one. Watch for Hawley’s new book next year, “Recovering the Lost River” (the Columbia).
