Salmonlands

This month while Barbara takes some time off, Locus Focus presents a retrospective of some of her radio documentaries. This week we present SALMONLANDS, produced in 2005.

Without the Salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it.

Yet since 1991, most of the salmon runs in the Northwest have been listed as threatened or endangered. This spring on the Columbia River the fewest fish in years are returning upstream to spawn.

Producer Barbara Bernstein takes us on a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant and what it will take to keep them from disappearing.