ADAM OLSEN – Millions of dollars have been spent to build roads and move mountains of debris, all in a heroic effort to save wild salmon
Since my election to the British Columbia legislature in May 2017, I have been a champion for wild salmon. As I have written often in the pages of this blog, the salmon are not only an important symbol of the abundance of our province, their work of transporting nutrients from the Pacific Ocean back home gives life to all other wildlife in our creeks, streams, rivers, and forests. Salmon are truly one of the great wonders of the world. In early 2019, the provincial and federal governments learned of a landslide at Big Bar, in the Fraser River north of Lillooet, BC. The landslide has had a dramatic impact on BC’s iconic salmon runs. It is just one of many human-caused and natural challenges facing wild Pacific salmon. Landslides on the Fraser are not new. I have heard the ancient stories of how disruptions upriver affected the salmon returns for the W ̱ S Á NE Ć reef net fishing families in the Salish Sea. Landslides of the past have been survivable, but now wild...