Keys to Breastfeeding (Barron's Parenting Keys)
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Keys to Breastfeeding (Barron's Parenting Keys)
William Sears , and Martha Sears
Manufacturer: Barrons Educational Series Inc
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5 out of 5 stars A lot of great information.......2003-02-12

This book is great for any breastfeeding moms. It tells you everything you need to know from how we produce milk to mastitis. I bought this book when I was getting ready to have twins. I had nursed my first child and needed to find out how to make enough milk for two babies. I don't agree with everything in the book on continued co-sleeping, but this is a very informative book. I just read it again since I have just had my fourth baby. Stephanie
Keys To Business Networking For Your Breastfeeding Supplies Online Business
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    Keys To Business Networking For Your Breastfeeding Supplies Online Business
    James Orr and Jassen Bowman
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    Build dental health with breastfeeding: nursing is a key player in the development of your child's healthy smile.: An article from: Mothering
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      Build dental health with breastfeeding: nursing is a key player in the development of your child's healthy smile.: An article from: Mothering
      Noel Stimson
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      Release Date: 2006-07-14

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      This digital document is an article from Mothering, published by Mothering Magazine on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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      Title: Build dental health with breastfeeding: nursing is a key player in the development of your child's healthy smile.
      Author: Noel Stimson
      Publication: Mothering (Magazine/Journal)
      Date: May 1, 2005
      Publisher: Mothering Magazine
      Issue: 130 Page: 54(8)

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      Caring for your premature baby: find out why breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact are key components in making sure your premature infant thrives.: An article from: Mothering
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        Caring for your premature baby: find out why breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact are key components in making sure your premature infant thrives.: An article from: Mothering
        Christine Gross-Loh
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        ASIN: B000F7CH40
        Release Date: 2006-03-28

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        This digital document is an article from Mothering, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5784 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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        Title: Caring for your premature baby: find out why breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact are key components in making sure your premature infant thrives.
        Author: Christine Gross-Loh
        Publication: Mothering (Magazine/Journal)
        Date: March 1, 2006
        Publisher: Thomson Gale
        Issue: 135 Page: 38(10)

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        Trustful bonds: A key to ''becoming a mother'' and to reciprocal breastfeeding. Stories of mothers of very preterm infants at a neonatal unit [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]
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          Trustful bonds: A key to ''becoming a mother'' and to reciprocal breastfeeding. Stories of mothers of very preterm infants at a neonatal unit [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]
          R. Flacking , U. Ewald , K.H. Nyqvist , and B. Starrin
          Manufacturer: Elsevier
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          This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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          A preterm birth and subsequent hospitalization of an infant at a neonatal unit (NU) implies an extraordinary life situation for mothers, in which the maternal role and breastfeeding begin and evolve in a medical and unfamiliar setting. Descriptions of how women experience ''becoming a mother'' and breastfeeding in such a situation are sparse and this question was addressed in the present study. In this qualitative study, inspired by the grounded theory approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 mothers whose very preterm infants had been cared for in seven NUs in Sweden. Findings indicated the importance of quality in social bonds with the infant, father, staff and other mothers at the NU, for ''becoming mothers'' and experiencing mutually satisfying breastfeeding. Three themes comprised a structure for descriptions of experiences, social bonds and mediated emotions: (1) 'loss' of the infant and the emotional chaos-''putting life on hold''; (2) separation-a sign of being unimportant as a person and mother; and (3) critical aspects of becoming more than a physical mother. The qualities were described as trustful or distrustful, characterized by accompanying feelings of pride/trust or shame/distrust. Social bonds were affected not only by the interpersonal interplay but also by the public environment and care routines. In conclusion, the contextual setting and distrustful social bonds impaired the ability to ''become mothers'' and the sensation of reciprocity i.e. breastfeeding becoming dutiful and not mutually satisfying. As breastfeeding is an intimate interplay and a personal choice it was considered that the best breastfeeding support would seem to be provision of a favorable environment that enhances the mother's confidence in herself. The contextual setting should be modeled such as to create conditions for a trustful and reciprocal mother-infant bond.
          The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success
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            The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success
            Jack Newman
            Manufacturer: Hale Publishing
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            Why do most moms end up weaning before their babies are more than a few weeks old? How do you help a mom have a successful breastfeeding experience? What is the benefit of skin-to-skin contact for newborns and how will it help breastfeeding be more successful? What about the baby who is gaining well for the first four monts, then starts acting hungry after breastfeeding? What is going on and how do you fix it? Can a baby with a cleft lip or palate breastfeed successfully? Dr. Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman have seen thousands of breastfeeding moms and babies with all kinds of problems. In this helpful, informative book, they share their insights and techniques to help moms and babies overcome their problems and breastfeed successfully. These techniques have worked many times over the years, sometimes with dramatic results. They are convinced these techniques will work for almost every mom in just about every situation. This book is a must for every health provider who helps breastfeeding moms and babies. It includes protocols, assessment guides, and many pictures to help moms get the latch right. Plus, it includes extensive references if you want to do further research on any of the topics.
            Keys To Business Networking For Your Breastfeeding Supplies Online Business
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              James Orr and Jassen Bowman
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              Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky And Virginia
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              • Contested Borderland
              • They felt the war on the mountain tops too
              Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky And Virginia
              Brian D. McKnight
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              ASIN: 0813123895

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              Finalist for the 2005 Peter Seaborg Award

              From 1861 to 1865, the border separating eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia was more than just a geographic marker--it represented a major ideological split, serving as an "international" boundary between the United States and the Confederacy. The loyalties of those who lived in this mountainous region could not be so easily divided, and large segments of the population remained neutral or vacillated in their support. Location and a wealth of resources made the region strategically important to both sides in the conflict, and both armies fought for control. In Contested Borderland, Brian D. McKnight shows how military invasion of this region led to increasing guerrilla warfare and how regular armies and state militias ripped communities along partisan lines, leaving wounds long after the official end of the Civil War.

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              4 out of 5 stars Contested Borderland.......2007-08-12

              I am currently working on my family genealogy and most of my relatives hail from this area of Kentucky and Virginia. This book mentions many of the units my relatives served in, which includes both Union and Confederate. I found the book to be filled with good information about the major battles and some of the smaller ones. The author gives good background on most of the major commanders, to include some of the Confederate commanders of several small local units. Occasionally individual soldiers are mentioned. All of the information is taken from well-documented sources.
              I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the Civil War and how it affected the people of eastern Kentucky and western Virginia.

              5 out of 5 stars They felt the war on the mountain tops too.......2006-11-28

              When most of us close our eyes and try to picture the Civil War as it happened, I imagine most of us see long rows of uniformed men advancing toward one another with appropriate flags waving above them, in an open field lit with sunshine. We seem to picture the war as one great Pickett's Charge. All the men are true and brave, ready to die doing their duty. Of course, that's not the way it was. And that vision was especially untrue in the regions tucked away from the commerce and the traffic and the war's main events.
              The ridges of the Appalachians separated people. They defined borders between states, between free and slave, and for a while between a country trying to save itself and another wanting to begin on its own. Those mountains and the narrow valleys between them offered plenty of shade and shadows in which people of all sorts could seek refuge. Where they ended in northwestern Pennsylvania the lumber camps became havens for well-armed bands of Union deserters. Farther south, along the Kentucky-Virginia frontier, mixed bands of deserters from both sides hid in the forests and preyed upon the locals. "Volunteers" stepped forward under the shield of being soldiers to steal from whomever they didn't like.
              As Brian McKnight points out in this regional study of the war near the Cumberland Gap, although lightly populated, this area had points of military significance, the gap itself being but one. It was here that James A. Garfield first proved his worth in the field, managing his men so well that he quickly gained promotion to brigadier and appointment as Don Carlos Buell's chief-of-staff. McKnight, who teaches at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, located right in the center of the area covered by his book, does a great job of showing all the facets of the war as they happened there. He shows you the military side, but also the partisan and civilian sides, which was significant in this mountain country where grudges were quickly formed and rarely forgotten, and an assassin in the dark could just as easily dole out justice as could a judge or jury. This was, after all, where the Hatfields and McCoys would carry on their own private war not many years afterward.
              In his thoughtful introduction, the author provides a good historiography of other regional studies of the partisan war fought in other places in the Appalachians, as well as in Missouri where it was, perhaps, at its worst. And he correctly points out that the war around the Cumberland Gap has never been adequately covered before. It has now, thanks to his efforts now available in this excellent book.
              Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
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                Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
                Shannon H. Wilson
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                Release Date: 2007-05-22

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                This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                Title: Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia.(Book review)
                Author: Shannon H. Wilson
                Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
                Date: May 1, 2007
                Publisher: Thomson Gale
                Volume: 73 Issue: 2 Page: 469(2)

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                Cocoa And Chocolate, 1765-1914
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                  Cocoa And Chocolate, 1765-1914
                  William Gervase Clarence-Smith
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                  This pioneering study examines all aspects of the history of cocoa and chocolate and the effect of these commodities globally. William Gervase Clarence-Smith looks at the effects of increased production of cocoa on the environment and on land distribution, at the coercion of labor to work the plantations, at the manufacture of chocolate, at taxation, and at consumption.

                  Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
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                  • Peter Morrison
                  • Great read
                  • Pacific Northwest Salmon History Book
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                  Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
                  James A. Lichatowich
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                  The image of salmon battling upstream through whitewater cataracts to spawn in their birthplace is integral to any happy vision of the Pacific Northwest. Sadly, because they face more insidious obstacles than swift currents, few people today actually witness this remarkable spectacle. Armed with exhaustive research and an ability to synthesize his findings into a concise, readable indictment of the status quo, Jim Lichatowich, a fisheries scientist for 30 years, traces the sudden decline of Northwest salmon populations following the onset of Euro-American settlement. He points a finger at the usual suspects: logging, mining, damming, grazing, irrigation, commercial fishing, and development. Moreover, he cites the political establishment for a failure of nerve. Since the shift from a Native American "gift" economy based on sustainability to a profit economy based on self-interest and short-term financial gain, the historically resilient salmon have met one adversary after another, with little or no help from the legal apparatus charged with their protection. In fact, federal and state governments have responded to the deepening crisis mainly by building fish hatcheries up and down the West Coast. Contrary to the beliefs of entrenched bureaucrats and sport fishermen, says Lichatowich, hatcheries have merely diluted the gene pools of wild stocks while allowing resource extractors to continue their multifarious operations and politicians to shirk their responsibilities. In 1960, for instance, after decades of declining runs, the Washington Department of Fisheries reported, incredibly (and characteristically), that new advanced management techniques would soon result in "salmon without a river"--more welcome news to those who would continue to exploit these iconic fish and their habitat. At the dawn of the 21st century hundreds of hatcheries still operate, yet Northwest salmon populations have decreased 95 percent.

                  Lichatowich is a learned and persuasive advocate for wild salmon. He's also eloquent, as in this description of his first visit to the Columbia River's Grand Coulee dam:

                  As I sat there wondering and swatting mosquitoes, the face of the dam lit up. It was the start of the nightly laser show.... Appropriately, the lasers sent a series of large green dollar signs floating through the darkness. Then a series of laser salmon swam across the face of the dam. Here were the ideal salmon, I thought, the fish that fit perfectly into our worldview. We have complete control over them--press a button and they appear; press another and they change from green to red; press another and they swim over the dam. Salmon and dams are compatible--as long as you are not particular about the kind of salmon.
                  So what to do? Lichatowich opines that we need a new "worldview," one that places natural resources within a context of respect and sustainability. He looks to state and federal governments to enforce the protections already granted by laws like the Endangered Species Act. And he sees evidence that public perceptions may be changing on such issues as habitat conservation and biodiversity; breaching four dams on the lower Snake River to aid fish passage would have been unthinkable even in the early 1990s. Whether this new worldview can save salmon in time is another question. --Langdon Cook

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                  "Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." --from the introduction

                  From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the distant oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by any other animal. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the natural productivity of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho has declined by eighty percent. The decline of Pacific salmon to the brink of extinction is a clear sign of serious problems in the region.

                  In Salmon Without Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich offers an eye-opening look at the roots and evolution of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of factors over the past century and a half that have led to the salmon's decline, and examines in depth the abject failure of restoration efforts that have focused almost exclusively on hatcheries to return salmon stocks to healthy levels without addressing the underlying causes of the decline. The book:

                  Throughout, Lichatowich argues that the dominant worldview of our society -- a worldview that denies connections between humans and the natural world -- has created the conflict and controversy that characterize the recent history of salmon; unless that worldview is challenged and changed, there is little hope for recovery. Salmon Without Rivers exposes the myths that have guided recent human-salmon interactions. It clearly explains the difficult choices facing the citizens of the region, and provides unique insight into one of the most tragic chapters in our nation's environmental history.

                  Customer Reviews:

                  5 out of 5 stars Peter Morrison.......2005-09-11

                  This is a must read book for anyone interested in salmon, rivers and the ecology and history of the Pacific Northwest. Excellent information and a good read.

                  5 out of 5 stars Great read.......2005-08-02

                  This is an excellent book that documents the history of salmon, how native Americans viewed them and how modern Americans view them. It focuses on why the pacific northwest is facing a salmon crisis, and our failed attempts to replace what we have lost. Great read for anyone who is concerned about environmental issues.

                  4 out of 5 stars Pacific Northwest Salmon History Book.......2003-12-02

                  Salmon Without Rivers is a great book of historical facts. It includes many issues like; original salmon locations/populations, "Economy over Environment" issues, and the ineffectiveness of large decision making commissions/agencies. However, with all his good background information the book does not propose any solutions nor investigates today's coastal human communities as they relate to the salmon and/or habitat.

                  5 out of 5 stars A captivating, human, informed book.......2001-01-16

                  As a freelance author writing a piece about salmon for a California-based magazine, this book was indispensible and eye-opening. It is unfailingly sensitive and intelligent about salmon, discussing the fish as fellow creatures in the "natural economy" in which we all live, rather than as mere commodities in the "industrial economy" that has transformed the West in the last 150 years. It is fascinating about the geology that shaped the salmon's environment, the evolutionary history of the fish, the relationship between Native Americans and salmon in the Northwest, and it provides a detailed history of the many factors that have led to the salmon's decline, including habitat destruction, misbegotten hatchery programs, overfishing, dams, mining, grazing, irrigation. If you like to read books about ecology, the creatures of the earth, fish, or the Northwest--you can't go wrong. This is a wonderful book.

                  5 out of 5 stars Save the salmon and us.......2000-12-24

                  A thoroughly researched and impassioned presentation including the history of salmon, their decline, why billions of tax dollars in restoration efforts have had paltry returns, and insights into the where we should go from here. A complex issue is examined from many perspectives in an easy to read and compelling book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in salmon.
                  Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
                  Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                  • Making Salmon Makes Us Human
                  • Understates negative impact of logging
                  • Swimming Against the Current
                  • Swimming Against the Current
                  • The definitive history of the Northwest salmon crisis
                  Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
                  Joseph E. Taylor
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                  Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

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                  5 out of 5 stars Making Salmon Makes Us Human.......2003-01-03

                  There's your text books on salmon, and there's required reading.
                  Of the 300-odd salmon titles, Making Salmon is one of those you
                  must read. Like First Fish, First People, Making Salmon is about
                  the human side of the fishery, its evolution and confabulation
                  as a fought-over resource. Absolutely fascinating history, you
                  realize right away that nobody has an absolute moral high ground
                  in the salmon debate. Everything is allied against its survival,
                  and yet magically, miraculously, the salmon continue to return.
                  Like Mountain in the Clouds, put Making Salmon on your booklist.

                  2 out of 5 stars Understates negative impact of logging.......2001-11-06

                  Mr. Taylor accurately identifies most of the causes of the salmon population crisis facing Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. And he is dead on in his assessment of the impact of farm fisheries on salmon ecology.
                  The book grossly understates, however, the impact of logging on salmon habitat. Without canopy to cool streams, temperature-sensitive salmon simply cannot spawn successfully. And let's not overlook the role that clear-cutting plays in causing erosion, sedimentation, and flooding. It's true that salmon ecology can still suffer from genetic contamination by farm fish, point-source and non-point-source pollution, illegal overfishing on the high seas, legal overfishing in fresh water, damming, and overuse of water by irrigators and developers. But let's not downplay the egregious impact of logging.

                  4 out of 5 stars Swimming Against the Current.......2000-05-11

                  Making Salmon is the definitive work on the problems facing the salmon fishery of the Pacific Northwest. For as long as man has lived he has exploited the salmon. Joseph Taylor takes the reader on a journey through time as he leads us step by step through the decline of these once great fish. There is plenty of culpability to go around. Foresters, developers, commercial fisherman, native Americans, even sport fishermen all come in for their share of blame. Although focusing on Oregon, Taylor's work is easily transferable anywhere salmon swim, from Alaska to California.

                  Extremely well documented (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) Making Salmon is occasionally dry but never dull. What is most dramatic about this story is the resiliency of the salmon. Time and time again they manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them!

                  Regardless of where you stand on the issue of dams, hatcheries, consumption or conservation, you will find merit in this work. Making Salmon is a must read for anyone interested in the rivers and fisheries of the Northwest.

                  4 out of 5 stars Swimming Against the Current.......2000-03-30

                  As long as man has lived in the Pacific Northwest he has exploited the salmon. In this thorough history of the travails of the pacific salmon, Joseph Taylor does not hesitate to mince words or point the finger of blame, and there is plenty of blame to go around. Native Americans, commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers, sport fishermen, politicians, the states, the feds, the hatcheries, and others, all share the responsibility for the decline of these great fish.

                  Although focusing on Oregon, MAKING SALMON is easily transferable anywhere Pacific salmon exist, from California to Alaska. Extremely well documented, (fully a third of the book is taken up with notes and other addenda) MAKING SALMON takes the reader step by step through the last two centuries of development in the Northwest and what that has meant to the salmon fishery there. Taylor paints an excellent history of failure and simplistic answers to a complex problem. What comes through, as most intriguing, is the resiliency of the salmon. They somehow manage to survive despite our best efforts to save them. Resiliency should not be confused with immortality however.

                  Not always an easy read, MAKING SALMON nonetheless remains essential to anyone wishing to better understand the plight of the Pacific salmon or who is interested in the fine detail of what happens when man and nature collide.

                  5 out of 5 stars The definitive history of the Northwest salmon crisis.......2000-02-06

                  Joseph Taylor's award-winning history of the Northwest salmon crisis is the best book to date on this important topic. No other study is as well researched or beautifully written as MAKING SALMON. Taylor, who teaches environmental and Western United States history at Iowa State University, traces the historical decline of salmon runs throughout the Pacific Northwest, focusing primarily on Oregon. His argument--that while many have claimed to speak for salmon, most have actually articulated their own needs instead--takes the current debate beyond the politics of blame. Understanding the complex social and environmental history of the "salmon crisis," he argues, is essential to thinking more clearly about the future of our region's fisheries. Most impressive is his critique of the role hatcheries have played in diminishing Northwest salmon runs. Science and technology, he concludes, have not always saved nature from human abuses. Abundant illustrations, detailed maps, and a rich bibliography round out the book. There are many titles that explore the decline of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. None address the issue as artfully and intelligently as MAKING SALMON. It is required reading for anyone who cares about the future of Northwest salmon or the people who depend upon them.
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