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If you have interest in reading any of the
books listed and described below, please contact
us at (208) 389-9957, or contact
us.
 Return
to the River (2006)
Pacific salmon and steelhead populations have
been in decline for over 150 years. That history
and a new approach to salmon recovery are
outlined in a new book by a panel of Northwest
scientists. Edited by Idaho Angler’s
Rick Williams, Return to the River
describes a new ecologically based vision
for rebuilding salmon and steelhead in the
Columbia River and outlines specific strategies
for such a recovery.
Download
the first chapter of Return to
the River by clicking
here.
 Salmon
Without Rivers (1999)
Written
by fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich (also
an author on Return to the River),
Salmon Without Rivers
describes the multitude of factors over
the past century and a half that have led
to the salmon's decline, and examines in
depth the abject failure of restoration
efforts that have focused almost exclusively
on hatcheries to return salmon stocks to
healthy levels without addressing the underlying
causes of the decline. Throughout, Lichatowich
argues that the dominant worldview of our
society-a worldview that denies connections
between humans and the natural world-has
created the conflict and controversy that
characterize the recent history of salmon;
unless that worldview is challenged and
changed, there is little hope for recovery.
Salmon
Without Rivers exposes the
myths that have guided recent human-salmon
interactions. It clearly explains the difficult
choices facing the citizens of the region,
and provides unique insight into one of
the most tragic chapters in our nation's
environmental history.
Salmon
without Rivers won the Washington
State Governor’s Book Award in 2000.
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