Salmon Fishing In WA
Salmon Fishing WA
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Salmon Fever: River’s End: Tragedies on the Lower Columbia River in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s $7.45 The mighty Columbia River is as dangerous as it is magnificent. The water at the mouth of the river is cold, with temperatures ranging from the forties in winter to the sixties in summer. When someone falls into the water nowadays, the experience is frightening and miserable, but help is usually quickly on the way. Lightweight clothing, life jackets and flotation devices keep him buo… |
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Fishermen’s Frontier, The: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) $20.63 “This ambitious and multifaceted book provides a sweeping history of the southeastern Alaska fishery and the people who oriented their lives around it, breaking down conventional boundaries by incorporating Indian, labor, and environmental history, all the while addressing some of the most important themes in western scholarship.” -American Historical Review”Books about fish tend to be tales of de… |
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The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography) $10.00 For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea–which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca–drew social and cultural borders around salmon fi… |