Mount Shasta Remembers
by Loree Johnson
Title
Mount Shasta Remembers
Artist
Loree Johnson
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This abandoned outbuilding still stands and provides shelter to a pair of barn owls, though the human inhabitants of this ranch have long since moved on. The Shasta Valley in northern California is a braod valley with the Shasta River as it's centerpiece. Currently, the Nature Conservancy is working with ranchers in the area to restore the once prolific salmon habitat provided by the river, which is a tributary of the much larger Klamath River. The Klamath River was once the third largest salmon producing river in the Pacific Northwest. So far, the habitat restoration project has been very successful, and hopefully the simple, common sense approach will allow the salmon to return in large numbers, while still providing enough resources and land so that the ranchers can maintain their livelihood.
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June 26th, 2013
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