Richard Manning’s article “Working the Watershed”
(HCN, 3/17/97) could easily have been titled “Overworking the
Watershed.” It described efforts to restore salmon fisheries and
oyster beds to Willapa Bay, a part of southwestern Washington state
that has been logged and logged and logged again. Now the
neighboring, and similarly overworked, Chinook watershed is the
subject of another restoration effort. The Chinook restoration is
building on what’s already in place: a salmon hatchery operated by
a nonprofit organization named Sea Resources and the local school
district. Until recently, Sea Resources used the hatchery to pump
out fish and train youngsters to run hatcheries. Now, with help
from the Portland nonprofit, Ecotrust, Sea Resources trains
youngsters in the long-term art of watershed
restoration.
The story is told in the booklet,
Restoring the River: A Plan for the Chinook Watershed, by scientist
T.C. Dewberry. For a copy, call Sea Resources at 360/777-8229 or
send $5 to Sea Resources, P.O. Box 187, Chinook, WA
98614.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Working the Watershed.
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