Books and Photos
As a way to learn about the magic, magnificence, and mystery of wild Northwest salmon, their contributions to human communities and wild ecosystems, and their plight to survive, Save Our Wild Salmon has assembled an extensive list of artists that include some of North America's pre-eminent "salmon writers, photographers, and artists." These links will connect you to a number of places, including the artists' websites and Powell's Books. By connecting to Powells.com through the Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign website, any purchases that you make anywhere in their online store will provide our campaign with a contribution of 10% of your purchase price. In order to buy books and benefit Northwest wild salmon, all you need to do is come through this website and use our links to Powells.com. The artists whose names are accompanied by a asterisk have also joined the growing national list of newspapers, fishing organizations and associations, large and small businesses, environmental organizations, faith leaders, taxpayer advocacy groups, scientists, and Native American Tribes and regular citizens that have endorsed this campaign to remove 4 dams on the Columbia-Snake River system in order to restore wild salmon and the clean, free-flowing river upon which they depend.
Sandy Eastoak* Paul VanDevelder* The last battle of the American Indian Wars did not end at a place called Wounded Knee. From White Shield to Washington, D.C., new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained Indian lawyers called Coyote Warriors-among them a Mandan/Hidatsa attorney named Raymond Cross. In the tradition of A Civil Action and J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground, Coyote Warrior tells the epic story of the three tribes that saved the Corps of Discovery from starvation, their century-long battle to forge a new nation, and the extraordinary journey of one man to redeem a father's dream-and the dignity of his people.
Elizabeth Grossman* Watershed: The Undamming of America is a close, both anecdotal and deeply informed, balanced examination of the advantages of removing some of the 75,000 dams on American waterways. Elizabeth Grossman has done a terrific job. The information here is invaluable. -- William Kittredge, author of Southwestern Homelands Of the scattered and occasional signs that humans are finally wising up to a new relationship with the earth, nothing is more exciting than the sight of once-dammed rivers now flowing free again. Think of it! There's a fairy-tale quality to the whole business, as if a spell has been broken, a curse lifted-and this book tells these tales in lovely and thoughtful prose. -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature It doesn't take absolute power to corrupt absolutely: a modest jolt of hydropower will often do the trick. Watershed is a meticulously researched, refreshingly serene, up-to-the-minute study of a subject that generates booster hysteria: the lower 48s engineered plague of dams. Dismantling pro-dam superstitions at the same methodical rate at which we'll soon be dismantling inexcusable dams, Elizabeth Grossman renders service to every greed-choked river in the land. -- David James Duncan
David James Duncan* "With this brilliantly said, funny, passionate, heartbroken, hopeful, and healing book David James Duncan moves into a very small class which includes himself, Norman Maclean, and Tom McGuane - our most transcendent fly fishing writers." -- William Kittredge "My Story as Told by Water is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth. Often very funny, it might have been an outright rant but for the truths it tells. Anglers, water babies, and river folk should read it immediately." -- Thomas McGuane
Tim Palmer*
Natalie Fobes, photographer "The salmon has indeed 'kindled and animated' the curiosity of writers Tom Jay and Brad Matsen, and together with the stunningly insightful photographer Natalie Fobes they have created a work of wisdom that contributes mightily to iconizing the salmon." -- Tony Angel "Reaching Home will elicit knowing nods and smiles from some. We can only hope the book also reaches those for whom salmon is only a fish, because for them the photos and essays will be a revelation." -- James W. Fullilove
James Lichatowich "[This book] is thoughtful, readable, and textured, although not the history of a detached academic. Lichatowich, a fisheries biologist and consultant, has been at the center of much of the salmon debate over the decades....SALMON WITHOUT RIVERS brings depth, insight, and readability to a timely subject. In the end, Lichatowich, like other good historians, offers lessons on the issues of the day. He tells us that the stories we tell ourselves about the world guide our behavior and have real consequences." Issues in Science & Technology, Winter 1999 -- John M. Volkman
Elizabeth Woody
Claire Rudolph Murphy*
Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison
C Groot and L Margolis Keith Petersen
Stephen E. Ambrose
Blaine Harden
Hiromi Naito, photographer
Joseph Cone
Pamela Michael
William Dietrich
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With a combined membership of over 6 million, the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS) is a nationwide coalition of conservation organizations, commercial and sportsfishing associations, businesses, river groups, and taxpayer advocates working collectively to restore self-sustaining, healthy, and abundant wild salmon to rivers and streams of the Pacific Northwest.