Fins & Fields: Restoring Snake River Salmon

Join David James Duncan for lunch in Spokane on April 15th

David's Snake River SteelheadReknowned author, fly fisher and conservationist David James Duncan will give a lunch presentation on Fins & Fields: Restoring Snake River Salmon, on Tuesday, April 15th at the Spokane Club, 1002 W. Riverside. The event is sponsored by Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition and Spokane River Slow Food. Lunch will feature sustainably-caught wild salmon and locally-sourced foods. The event is open to the public. Tickets are $20.

He will speak on the value of the Snake River watershed to wild salmon populations, and the opportunities to build alliances among fishermen & farmers, chefs, and consumers, and others to restore wild salmon to the Columbia & Snake Rivers. David has been involved in efforts to restore wild salmon & steelhead to the Snake River for years. He is a very funny, poignant and poetic writer and speaker, and not to be missed.

David Duncan is a headliner author for Spokane's literary festival Get Lit! and will also be presenting at Spokane Community College Wednesday, April 16th at 7:30 pm on "Holy Fools in Literature and Real Life" in the Lair Auditorium as part of SCC's President's Speakers Series. It is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP to Sam Mace, sam@wildsalmon.org , or 747-2030. Checks for lunch should be made out to Save Our Wild Salmon and mailed to 35 W Main Ave, #200, Spokane WA 99201 before April 11th. Tickets will not be available at the door. To purchase a ticket online visit: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=4820

David will be signing books and Lost River posters (see below) after his presentation.

David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, and the nonfiction collections My Story as Told by Water and God Laughs & Plays. His work has won three Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Awards, a Lannan Fellowship, the Western States Book Award, the American Library Association's 2003 Award for the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom (with co-author Wendell Berry), and many other honors. Duncan has spoken all over the U.S. on such topics as rivers and wilderness, the non-monastic contemplative life, and the writing life. He lives with his family in Montana, where he is at work on a novel called Eastern Western.

 

 

Lost River Promotes Dialogue among Fishermen and Farmers

New Limited Edition Print Now Available From Save Our Wild Salmon

The enigmatic image of boats filled with fishermen in an eastern Washington wheat field unites two of the Northwest’s most prized livelihoods — fish and farming — in the limited edition print entitled Lost River. As captured by photographer Frederic Ohringer, the beauty and value of eastern Washington’s agricultural landscape is joined with an image of fishermen casting into a wheat field “river” symbolically void of water or salmon. The accompanying short essay by author David James Duncan, whose novels include The River Why and The Brothers K, grieves for the losses salmon communities have suffered but offers a vision of hope that fishermen and farmers will one day meet by the river to share the bounty of both land and water.

SOS and its partners are working to bring fishermen and farmers together to create a future of thriving farms, vibrant river communities and abundant salmon. With a donation of $30 or more, you will receive a limited edition copy of Lost River, while supporting Save Our Wild Salmon’s efforts to create the national, regional and local momentum to return wild salmon and steelhead to their Pacific Northwest rivers. LEARN MORE

 
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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.