Salmon Life Cycle Song

First I was an egg, I was petrified.

River Snorkel: The Feast

Spawning time in a salmon stream is not all death, sex and war. These second year wild salmon and trout are feasting on eggs blown down from hundreds of Pink salmon spawning directly upstream.

Brooks Falls - Brown Bear & Salmon Cam

Another day, another awesome live webcam.

B.C.'s Cowichan River in danger of drying up, threatening salmon runs

The Cowichan River could run bone dry before the end of the month if rain doesn't start falling by the bucketful, raising concerns for environmentalists, municipal officials and representatives of the nearby paper mill.

The record-breaking drought could drastically impede spawning salmon runs.

LINK (via:CBC News)

All fishing has been banned on the Cowichan River while officials try to rescue this year's run of chinook salmon from drought conditions.

LINK (via: Cowichan News)

Looks like there was a fight over which was more important

Sent to us by chum buddy Justin Witt

Sonoma and Medocino County Whine

Scores of Sonoma and Mendocino county grape growers and other farmers packed a Mendocino County Superior Court room Thursday for a lawsuit challenging state frost protection rules for stretches of the Russian River watershed.

Regulators say the rules are necessary to protect salmon and steelhead, the latter a threatened species. Farmers and their attorneys say the regulations are unneeded, trample farmers' water rights and exceed the state Water Resources Control Board's authority.

LINK (via: the press democrat)