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THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN 2100: AN ALTERNATIVE FUTURES PERSPECTIVE ON SALMON RECOVERY
Citation:
LACKEY, R. T. THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN 2100: AN ALTERNATIVE FUTURES PERSPECTIVE ON SALMON RECOVERY. Presented at Leadership and Staff of the British Columbia Minstry of the Environment Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, CANADA, October 03, 2006.
Description:
The primary goal of the Salmon 2100 Project is to identify practical options that have a high probability of maintaining biologically significant, sustainable populations of wild salmon in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and southern British Columbia. The Project does not support or advocate any particular policy or class of policies, but provides decision makers and the interested public with a diverse set of independently developed, practical policy prescriptions with reasonable prospects of restoring significant wild salmon runs. The Project enlisted 33 scientists, policy analysts, and policy advocates, all well versed and experienced in salmon science and policy. Most policy prescriptions fell into one of four general categories: (1) technological intervention often accompanied by a recalibration of the notion or definition of what is a 'wild' salmon; (2) triage approaches that would concentrate recovery efforts on areas where successful recovery is most likely; (3) revamped salmon recovery bureaucracies and institutions including jettisoning 'symbolic politics' pervasive in salmon policy; and (4) changed individual and societal behaviors. The policy prescriptions developed as part of the Salmon 2100 Project are likely to produce ecologically viable results, though most are much more socially disruptive than current recovery strategies.