Shaping the Salish Sea
Beavers and Salmonby Michael Melton, Autumn 2024
Beavers and salmon have co-existed and co-evolved over seven million years, and they have a mutually beneficial relationship: beavers provide habitat for salmon and the salmon return nutrients to the rivers and streams.
This film explores the relationship between the two species with particular emphasis on how chum salmon navigate beaver dams when returning to spawn in the fall.
Mike Melton is a filmmaker and photographer who splits his time between Olympia, Washington and Costa Rica. He loves to spend his time volunteering his time and skills to conservation organizations from Washington state to Costa Rica to Amazonas to South Africa. His latest project is documenting conservation work on the Baird’s Tapir in the Guanacaste Cordillera in Costa Rica.
Table of Contents, Issue #25, Autumn 2024
Nurse Stump Clan
by John F. Williams, Autumn 2024 images by John F. WilliamsStumps in foreground and background with new trees growing from them.by John F. Williams, Autumn 2024Images by John F. WilliamsA mushroom growing out of a tree.Taking a stroll through a forested city park the...
Sticky Subjects in the Intertidal
by Celeste Hankins, Autumn 2024Images by Celeste Hankins except as notedby Celeste Hankins, Autumn 2024Images by Celeste Hankins except as notedYou can listen to the text of this article using the Audio version above. narrated by Celeste HankinsI kneel in the mud and...
Poetry 25
by multiple poets Autumn 2024Starflowers. photo by Barb Ericksonby multiple poets Autumn 2024Desolation, first by Deborah Poe 1.a buck approaches the campsite (velvet antlers)fireweed spreads like its namethe first plant to grow in forestsafter fires burn back...
Nurturing Life
by Sarah Ottino, Autumn 2024images by Sarah Ottino except as notedLarge woody debris (LWD) is an important part of a healthy river ecosystem.by Sarah Ottino, Autumn 2024images by Sarah Ottino except as notedWhen we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope...
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