DESCRIPTION: Adult salmon typically weigh from eight to 15 pounds or more and reach up to three feet in length. Young salmon called parr have eight to 11 vertical dark “parr marks” on their silvery ...

Many of these looks became fleeting fads, embraced enthusiastically for a time before fading into the depths of pop culture history ... as a fad—balancing dead salmon on their heads like ...

The Klamath River, flowing through Oregon and California, recently regained its natural course after more than a century of ...

said that even though chinook salmon typically return to the place of their birth to spawn, after two to three years in the ocean, the fish have built-in “life history strategies” that allow ...

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’ve probably heard a lot about salmon — how important they are to this region, and how much trouble they’re in now. But the history lessons many of ...

Comfort If you want to find a turning point in Washington state’s modern history of environmental ... Dams have pushed salmon populations to the brink over the last century and destroyed ...

spurring the Burlington Free Press to deem Salmon’s Nov. 7, 1972, victory over the now late Republican businessman Luther “Fred” Hackett “the biggest political upset in Vermont history.” ...

“Managed Extinction” is magisterial in its sweep of history and biology; it penetrates to the roots of the assumptions and wishful thinking that underlie the salmon extinction crisis. Salmon ...