Sometimes there are outright attacks and torpedos you can see coming like yesterdays ecologist blaming beavers for blocking salmon. But sometime things are more subtle. Like an aunt who tells your mother at Thanksgiving that your unmarried sister is a pregnant but adds “Bless her heart” at the end of it.

This is definitely a “Bless her heart” kind of article.

Slowing Down Streams for Salmon

It’s late fall, and coho salmon are seesawing their strong bodies upstream — their flashy silver sides stained a dark maroon as the fish prepare to spawn.

With climate change turning much of the West warmer and drier, every drop of water matters for these coho, along with the other four species of Pacific Ocean salmon (chinook, pink, chum, and sockeye) that breed and hatch young in rivers and streams. (more…)