🚀 go-pugleaf

How many people realize what is happening in Redwood country?
Only 1% of historic California Coho Salmon now survive.  Translated to
human beings, this 99% loss would correspond to the death of over 5.5
billion people, almost a thousand times the death toll attributed to the
Nazi concentration camps.  Translated to the U.S., a 99% drop would leave
us with a population between that of Bhutan and Togo, after a death toll
10,000 times the annual toll from one-on-one murder and manslaughter
combined.  If the rule is "three strikes and you're out", what's the
appropriate response to those who perpetrate 10,000 strikes?  Downed logs
in creeks provide important habitat to Salmon, so removing fallen trees is
not innocuous.

Salmon may be pivotal to the health of the ecosystem in the long run,
closing a great loop by bringing nutrients from the sea, without which the
land's vitality would steadily decline as the rains wash nutrients
downstream.  The wealth of Redwood land may be due to the work of Salmon.
Salmon are supreme gift-givers. Isn't it about time for larger numbers of
people to awake from the stuporous rut of selfish taking-taking-taking,
grow up to have enough maturity to begin repaying the enormous debt to
Nature that we have incurred, and maybe even rise to a level of nobility a
fraction that of Salmon by giving above the call of duty toward the
sustainability of _all_ life, including that beyond our immediate family?
An appropriate start would be a repayment to Salmon: defense and
restoration of their forest habitat.