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is Salmon Nation? The Vision of Ecotrust Salmon Nation is a geographic landscape as well as a landscape of the mind. It is a nation that does not yet exist. It is a nation that has always been. It is a cultural identity built around the soil and streams touched by Pacific Salmon. It stretches from Alaska down to California and inland to Idaho and even Montana. It crosses state and national borders. It reaches from the deep seas miles off shore to the high mountain streams that still run ice cold. It's map covers the hard pavement of cities, the watered lawns of suburbs, the steep forested hills of the coast range, and the rolling rich farmlands of the Palouse. It is a landscape that goes by different names these days -- the Pacific Northwest, Cascadia, the Rain Forest Coast. Yet salmon were here before, and the first people knew the districts of this nation, long before the mountains were named for English nobility. Those people were rich because of the salmon. Indeed the very lands of Salmon Nation have been enriched by the bodies of salmon over a millennia. More than 137 species in Salmon Nation depend on the nutrients brought back from the ocean by this heroic fish. Beyond salmon, we are bound in this region by other issues, by water, by power, by trade and history. We face common problems, share common interests and look to each other with a common history. Salmon nation is a place where the economy is not in conflict with the ecological health of the land. A place of diverse ideas, species and cultures. A place where riches flow from the vibrance of the streams, soils and seas. It is a place in which both salmon and people not only live ... but thrive. Visit Salmon Nation |
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