King of Fish: The Thousand-year Run of SalmonBasic Books, 08.10.2003 - 290 Seiten A passionate recounting of the natural history of the rise and fall of salmon in England, New England, and the Pacific Northwest-with recommendations for bringing the salmon back. The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and near-extinction of the salmon as a story of changing landscapes. Montgomery shows how a succession of historical experiences -first in the United Kingdom, then in New England, and now in the Pacific Northwest -repeat a disheartening story in which overfishing and sweeping changes to rivers and seas render the world inhospitable to salmon. In King of Fish, Montgomery traces the human impacts on salmon over the last thousand years and examines the implications both for salmon recovery efforts and for the more general problem of human impacts on the natural world. What does it say for the long-term prospects of the world's many endangered species if one of the most prosperous regions of the richest country on earth |
Inhalt
CHAPTER | 1 |
SALMON COUNTRY | 7 |
CHAPTER 3 | 21 |
SALMON PEOPLE | 39 |
CHAPTER 5 | 59 |
NEW WORLD SALMON | 87 |
WESTERN SALMON RUSH | 123 |
BETTER THAN NATURAL | 149 |
POWER FOR THE PEOPLE | 177 |
RIVERS OF CHANGE | 203 |
THE SIXTH H | 227 |
Sources | 251 |
Figure Sources | 269 |
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