Imagine running a marathon while the air around you is filled with smoke. You’d get tired quicker, have uncontrollable coughing, and eventually, give up entirely. You may not think oxygen is as important to fish as it is to humans, but this analogy is perfect for our salmon and coldwater fish populations. Fish actually breathe the air (oxygen) inside the water. Remember, water is H2O– and that O means something! It is the key to determining if a migrating salmon is a champion
A place becomes a home when it is known. Dwellings, Linda Hogan Like countless others, I had only ever breezed past the Rogue Valley on the I-5, until about a year ago when I took a job with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). On my first day, my coworkers whisked me into the Ashland watershed, through an area which had been tended to through the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project. For years, they had stewarded and monitored that land, learning every valley and every rise, and
