SalmonAid festival & what we can do about the Salmon crisis

The SalmonAid festival to help address the Salmon crisis will be at
Jack London Square May 31 - June 1, details at http://www.salmonaid.org

For some tips on what we can do, check out the action link on salmonaid.org
as well as http://www.water4fish.org and
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/18/18493885.php

Salmon are vital to the long-term health of pacific ecosystems,
bringing nutrients from the sea, without which the land's
vitality might steadily decline as the rains wash nutrients downstream.
In some places, 50% of the nitrogen in coastal trees came from Salmon.
More than 137 species depend on Salmon for their survival.

Salmon are miner's canaries revealing the health of watersheds. Evidence
indicates they have been here a million years longer than people, during which
time there have been 100-year droughts and multiple ice ages. If they can't
make it now after making it through all that, then there's something very wrong
in our life support system, and we can expect to face trouble ourselves if it's
not turned around.

Salmon are supreme gift-givers, giving their lives to future generations by
feeding the whole watershed. They show by example a degree of nobility and
wisdom that can inspire us to rise above the self-orientedness that has become
so prevalent, and work toward the sustainability of _all_ life, including that
beyond our own kind.

Feel free to spread the word.