What Happened to the Salmon

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“What kind of person can cut an ancient forest to bloody stumps, bulldoze the meadows to mud, spray poison over the mess that’s left, and then set smudge fires in the slash? And when the wounded mountainside slumps into the river, floods tear apart the waterfalls and scour the spawning beds, and no salmon return, what kind of person can pronounce it an act of God — and then direct the bulldozers through the stream and into the next forest, and the next? I hope there’s a cave in hell for people like this, where an insane little demon hops around shouting, ‘jobs or trees, jobs or trees,’ and buries an ax blade in their knees every time they struggle to their feet.”
-Kathleen Dean Moore
…and then take it out on the seals and sea lions for feeding on the fish, as they’ve always done. This is what happened to the salmon spawning beds around here.