By John C. Ryan
No position in the world has a greater probability to reconcile humans and nature than the Pacific Northwest: the greenest a part of history’s richest civilization. country of the Northwest—newly revised and up-to-date for 2000—is the single complete well-being cost for the zone stretching from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific Ocean to the crest of the Rockies. Six years after Northwest atmosphere Watch released the 1st version of nation of the Northwest, the region’s ecosystems are nonetheless in severe situation. but our surroundings continues to be much less degraded than nearly anyplace else within the commercial international. We within the Northwest nonetheless have a unprecedented chance to construct a sustainable means of life—one which may final. This e-book exhibits the sector from a unique viewpoint: a salmon’s. After touring with a chinook from Idaho mountains to the Gulf of Alaska and again, you could by no means examine the Northwest an analogous means back.
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It ingests infinitesimal amounts of heavy metals and PCBs. Unluckier fish will consume more toxic waste. They will develop tumors and lesions, suffer suppressed immune systems, and perhaps lose the all-important sense of smell that enables them to find their way back to the streams of their birth. C I T I E S , S U BU R B S , A N D TOW N S C OV E R O N LY 1 PERCENT of the Pacific Northwest. But buildings and pavement tend to occupy the best land for growing crops or timber and the most diverse natural habitats.
As Indians were killed off, forcibly removed, or otherwise prevented from using fire to manage their lands, trees and shrubs began to replace the grasses. Farms and, more recently, suburban sprawl have replaced most of the remaining grassland. S. Army’s Fort Lewis, where exploding artillery sets off fires that mimic Indian fire regimes. 46 Though less obvious to the untrained eye, the transformation of Northwest grasslands has been much like that of its forests. Whether their dominant species are centuries-old trees or grasses that live for decades, “ancient” ecosystems are badly depleted in the Pacific Northwest.
And most irrigation water in the North- 52 STATE OF THE NORTHWEST west goes not to apples, potatoes, or other food for humans but to grass and alfalfa, feed crops that are processed—and mostly wasted—by the digestive tracts of cows. 77 Farms and feedlots return much of the water they use to the land, but seldom before adding soil, wastes, or chemicals to it. The 50,000 dairy cows in the Yakima River basin of eastern Washington—more than twice the number a decade ago—produce more waste (manure, urine, and tainted water) than the city of Seattle; fewer than one in five Yakima dairies properly manages its manure.