![]() Levees starve river systems by keeping them swift, deep, and with very little surface area. “It comes down to solar energy being the source of all life. ![]() Katz has a knack for explaining complicated systems in simple terms. As Cook states, “the Nigiri Project is using an innovative approach to reintegrate a semblance of the wild into an engineered landscape.”Ĭheck out an excerpt from Upstream featuring Jacob: For the past 5 years, Jacob, as spearheader of the Nigiri Project, has used flooded rice fields to raise juvenile salmon as a proof-of-concept method, demonstrating that the Yolo Bypass’ abundant flood plains can also make perfect habitat for fish in the winter. This is where Jacob Katz, CalTrout’s Senior Scientist, comes in to the book, in an aptly-named chapter titled “Make Way for the Floodplain Fatties”. His firsthand account takes him up and down salmon country, from the glacial rivers of Alaska to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest to California’s parched Central Valley. ![]() ![]() Now on sale, Langdon Cook’s new book Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table takes an essential look at the intersection of man, food, and nature. Integrate Wild Fish and Working Landscapes. ![]()
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