Wild Chinook salmon, some migrating more than 900 miles to the ocean from the high mountains of Idaho, once made up nearly 50% of the Columbia River Basin's salmon runs.
In 2020, and over the last twenty years, wild Chinook in Idaho have been in crisis, placed on the endangered species list, and face the growing threat of extinction.
In fact, only 2 % of Idaho's wild Chinook population remains.
This is not only a crisis for this Idaho salmon but also for biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest.
Deirdre Abrams Idaho's chinook salmon: the journey of a life cycle, paperback/deirdre a. abrams
