Salmon 2100 Project

Moderators: Bob Lackey and Denise Lach
Emails: lackey.robert@epa.gov and denise.lach@oregonstate.edu

Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005
Time: 8:00 am to 5:40 pm
Location: Atwood Concert Hall

This symposium will report the results of the Salmon 2100 Project. The primary goal of this project was to identify practical options having a high probability of maintaining biologically significant, sustainable populations of wild salmon. Current wild salmon recovery efforts in western North America (especially California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and southern British Columbia), as earnest, expensive, and socially disruptive as they currently are, do not appear likely to sustain biologically significant populations of wild salmon through this century. Long-term sustainability, although broadly supported in the abstract, remains elusive in reality. Rather than supporting or advocating any particular policy or class of policies, the overarching theme of the Salmon 2100 Project is to help policy makers and the public evaluate a suite of possible policy options by providing a number of independent, practical, policy-neutral policy prescriptions that would work. To accomplish its goal, the Project has enlisted 30 scientists, resource managers, and policy analysts. The policy prescriptions offered by Project participants are universally candid, sometimes uncomfortably radical, and occasionally sobering. Most Project participants conclude that major, sometimes wholesale modification of core societal values and priorities will have to occur if significant, sustainable populations of wild salmon are to be present in the region through 2100.

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