Totem Salmon: Life Lessons From Another Species Book

Part lyrical true-life adventure, part social and philosophical manifesto, TOTEM SALMON tells of a watershed community that worked for two decades to save one of the last purely native stocks of salmon in California.

Library Journal

House, a former commercial salmon fisherman and cofounder of two watershed restoration groups in Northern California, presents a personal tale of self-discovery as he recounts the efforts of the Mattole River Valley community to save wild salmon in the region through various habitat restoration activities. While many excellent books on the plight of salmon are already availablee.g., Upstream: Salmon & Society in the Pacific Northwest (National Academy, 1996) is a thorough and well-indexed reference to salmon ecology and fisheries, and Judith Roches First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim (Univ. of Washington, 1998) presents Native American rituals and folklore relating to salmonTotem Salmon meets a different need as an eloquent combination of history, biology, and politics. Well researched and informative, it is also a delight to read. An appropriate addition to both public and academic libraries.Barbara Butler, Oregon Inst. of Marine Biology, Univ. of Oregon, Charleston