Jack Kohler continues to visit with native people engaged in the restoration of habitat for the Spring Chinook salmon.
We learn about the difficulty of surviving unhealthy environments under restricted river flows and decreasing water quality conditions, resulting in considerable damage to spawning habitats.
Ron Reed, a Cultural Biologist of the Karuk Tribe, speaks of the "suffering from the impact of past management".
Limiting the exchange of minerals and nutrients between the forest and the Pacific Ocean, as well as the impact on the genetic composition of the native salmon populations.
Lyle Marshall, Chair Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, uses the term "Salmon gets lost" to describe the impact done to original genetic materials through the process of rearing salmon in a hatchery.
Assuming that the hatchery was going to replace the natural resources provided by spawning habitats.
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