NORTH COAST SALMON

Restoring fish, and in particular salmon, is the focus of much of the conservation in the North Coast basin.

For centuries, the muscular fish whose life flashes between woodland streams and ocean depths has embodied the bold health and vitality of the Pacific Northwest.

For the past several decades, scientists and average citizens alike have watched as more than 100 of the major West Coast salmon runs have gone extinct. Now, nine of 10 remaining wild runs are threatened. Seven out of 10 salmon swimming in Oregon streams were born in a fish hatchery, not a stream. (Novak)