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How shifting baselines transform nature and challenge restoration

Among the jumbled boulders on the Klamath River’s Ishi Pishi Falls, Ron Reed learned to fish with a traditional salmon dipnet when he was just a few years old. Chinook and coho, Reed remembers, clogged the water below the tumbling rapids during peak migration times.

“All I remember is salmon, all over the place,” says Reed, a 62-year-old elder and ceremonial leader of the Karuk tribe. “We caught so many, sometimes all we’d need by noon.”

… “All these species that we think of as being endangered and on the precipice of disappearing, we’ve forgotten that they used to be abundant, and there were actually fisheries for most of them,” said Jon Rosenfield, science director at San Francisco Baykeeper.

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