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David Montgomery
King of Fish
The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
David Montgomery
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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
cannot
accommodate
its
icon
species?
All
too
aware
of
the
possible
bleak
outcome
for
the
salmon,
King
of
Fish
concludes
with
provocative
recommendations
for
reinventing
the
ways
in
which
we
make
environmental
decisions
about
land,
water,
and fish.
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