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I was a contributing writer as well as co-editor of this volume with my longtime Sea Grant colleague, Sandy Ridlington. Our motivation for this book came largely out of my working on A Common Fate, during which it became clear that many people believed that the salmon crisis which forced itself on public attention in the early 1990s had somehow just then fallen out of the sky.
As the historic documents and the companion critical essays in this book make clear, the contemporary endangered-species "salmon crisis" is only the most recent phase of a lengthy and well-documented decline of Northwest wild salmon over the last century.
The magazine *Choice* awarded the book recognition as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books" of the year, and Environmental Law Journal descibed it as
"a valuable resource for policy makers, scientists, historians, students, and all who care about the future of salmon."
Many libraries own the book, and we continue to hear about its use in environmental policy, law, and wildlife biology classes.
The book is currently available in paperback through Oregon State University Press:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/press/s-t/salmon.htm
The audio excerpt is relatively brief, and is taken from one of the essays I wrote, about an old conservation idea whose time has not, apparently, yet come.
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