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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [First Page] [293], (1) Lines: 0 to 1 ——— 12.0pt PgV ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [293], (1) Part 6. Natural Resources, Conservation, and Environmental Issues in the Borderlands As this book began in part 1, discussing bioregions and a sense of place within the borderlands’ natural environments, so it ends by examining other aspects of the region’s natural resources, conservation, and environmental issues. One of the most important natural resources in the borderlands of the Pacific Northwest has always been salmon. In chapter 17, Lissa Wadewitz frames salmon fishing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around a borderlands thesis—the interaction of fish, Native Americans/First Nations, the salmon industry, and comparative policies on both sides of the international line. She concludes that for many involved in salmon fishing the border itself became more of a target of opportunity than a barrier, and that it increased the level of competition in the industry. But what role has the boundary played in conservation initiatives in the region? By tracing the history of Alberta’s Waterton Lakes National Park, and how the border divides it from, or connects it to, Glacier National Park in Montana, Cate Mortimer-Sandilands shows that there are important cultural, political, and ecological implications to the cleared border swath that runs between the two parks. Other transboundary environmental issues abound in a region characterized by the stunning scenery of Pacific Northwest forests, the Rocky Mountains, and the wide-open spaces of the Great Plains grasslands— regions that are also endowed with some of the world’s best timber and deposits of coal, oil, natural gas, and minerals. Thus a clear clash of values exists between proponents of increased economic development and advo- 294 | Resources, Conservation, and Environmental Issues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [294], Lines: ——— 15.544pt ——— Normal * PgEnds: [294], cates of conservation, the preservation of biodiversity, and tourism. Todd Wilkinson unpacks these contrasts in chapter 19, and via his research, analysis, and interviews with environmental activists in the borderlands of Montana and Alberta, he compares environmental issues and policies of the American and Canadian Wests. For Further Reading On Salmon in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands On Forestry and Conservation in the Borderlands On Other Transboundary Environmental and Energy Issues On Salmon in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands Arnold, David. “The ‘Original Conservationists’ and Salmon Management on the Northwest Coast, 1880s-1940s.” Paper, conference of the American Historical Association– Pacific Coast Branch (aha-pcb), Vancouver bc, August 2001. Barcott, Bruce. “Aquaculture’s Troubled Harvest.” Mother Jones, November/December 2001, 38–45. Boxberger, Daniel. To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Burke, Adam. “River of Dreams: The 30-Year Struggle to Resurrect Washington’s Elwha River and One of Its Spectacular Salmon Runs.” High Country News 33 (September 24, 2001): 1, 8–12. Busch, Robert H. Salmon Country: A History of the Pacific Salmon. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Clarren, Rebecca. “Bracing against the Tide: On the Rugged Coast of British Columbia, Tribes, Fishermen, and Environmentalists Fight a ‘Salmon Apocalypse.’ ” High Country News 35 (March 17, 2003): 1, 8–11. . “Hatching Reform.” High Country News 34 (June 10, 2002): 1, 8–12. Cone, Joseph. Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. Crutchfield, James A., and Giulio Pontecorvo. The Pacific Salmon Fisheries: A Study of Irrational Conservation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969. Deur, Douglas. “Salmon, Sedentism, and Cultivation: Toward an Environmental Prehistory of the Northwest Coast.” In Goble and Hirt, eds., Northwest Lands. Evenden, Matthew D. Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Findlay, John M. “A Fishy Proposition: Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest.” In David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner, eds., Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Goble, Dale. “Salmon in the Columbia Basin: From Abundance to Extinction.” In Goble and Hirt, eds., Northwest Lands. [3.147.104.120] Project MUSE (2024...

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