HERE in CALI, SEPTEMBER 17th thru OCTOBER 1st, we're having RUN4SALMON to bring the Salmon back to the McCloud River in the Mount Shasta Area, and "to raise awareness about the policies threatening our waters, our fish, and indigenous lifeways." FOR SURE--my awareness about the absence of the Salmon in the McCloud river was raised last week after attending the "Benefit for the Winnemem Wintu Tribe - Evening of Live Music and Short Documentary in Mt Shasta." I learned that the Salmon have been blocked from 'going home' to the McCloud River ever since the Shasta Dam was built in 1945, and I also learned that only because of a fish hatchery in McCloud, California that exported fish eggs in the late 1800's, are there positively identified, living genetic descendants of those Salmon today.
