Little Hawk
Active Member
If only Canada's politicians' held the same vision of the immense value of Pacific salmon as Alex Morton and all of us do.
Alex sent another well written letter that I hope ya all can take a minute to read. Her grasp of the vital importance of this resource to the people and animals of the Pacific North West is paralleled only by her ability to articulate it in a universally easy-to-understand tongue.
Wild Salmon People*
* A people’s movement to change the course of BC politics*
*(Adams River, Oct. 4) After 18 years of decline, the 2010 Fraser River
Sockeye return was so big it *fed whales, eagles and a $500 million
commercial fishery as the fish moved down the coast. They are now
transporting 45 million kilograms of ocean nutrients deep into the interior
of the province.
*The implications are staggering*. People and salmon came to British
Columbia 1000s of years ago. As salmon built the earth with their bodies,
the people built a culture that respected the fish they depended on. In this
way people and fish prospered together. The Fraser sockeye are demonstrating
this opportunity still exists.
*Thirty-four million sockeye returned to the Fraser and we don’t know
why. *They
thrived in spite of us. Imagine if we worked intelligently with this fish,
with our forests, and with the marine and fresh water environments. We won
the lottery this year, but societies cannot survive on the luck of the draw.
We are rich, but only as long as we remain ecologically intact.
*The life cycle of salmon spans the province of British Columbia* from the
headwaters, through our towns to the coast. If we considered them essential
and gauged our behavior in terms of impact on wild salmon we would instantly
have to consider affects up and downstream along this living corridor. This
simple shift in vision would create a social and ecological maturity with
enormous possibility. We could work with rather than against our natural
resources. Today's, governments appear blind to long-term prosperity* *beyond
their term in office.
*We still live in a democracy so we can change government, but* it is not
enough to just let elections happen to us. We need candidates that will take
care of the home we share. Imagine being happy to pay taxes, because you
believed in your government?
*Here is what I propose.* Keeping your current party membership, let’s build
an enormous voting block across all parties standing for the values above.
Starting in November, I will contact every politician in British Columbia to
hear their plan to achieve sustainable prosperity based on sound social,
ecological and economic principles. Wild salmon are a living icon of
democracy and we choose their name to represent us www.wildsalmonpeople.ca
If politicians don't answer, I will post that too, but the more of us there
are the more answers we will get. If there are enough of us a political
party will rise or adapt to meet us. This is our home and we have every
right to have a say in what happens here. At the next election we need to
be ready to vote for what is best for us.
I am on a mission for wild salmon over the next 30 days traveling throughout
the Fraser watershed to learn from the wild salmon people of this river. On
the 20th we begin a 5 day paddle from Hope to Vancouver and on the 25th we
will land at Vanier Park in Vancouver and walk to the opening of the sockeye
Inquiry to support Justice Cohen in his very difficult pursuit of truth
about what is happening to these fish. You can follow this journey at *
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/*
Alexandra Morton
250-974-7086
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
Alex sent another well written letter that I hope ya all can take a minute to read. Her grasp of the vital importance of this resource to the people and animals of the Pacific North West is paralleled only by her ability to articulate it in a universally easy-to-understand tongue.
Wild Salmon People*
* A people’s movement to change the course of BC politics*
*(Adams River, Oct. 4) After 18 years of decline, the 2010 Fraser River
Sockeye return was so big it *fed whales, eagles and a $500 million
commercial fishery as the fish moved down the coast. They are now
transporting 45 million kilograms of ocean nutrients deep into the interior
of the province.
*The implications are staggering*. People and salmon came to British
Columbia 1000s of years ago. As salmon built the earth with their bodies,
the people built a culture that respected the fish they depended on. In this
way people and fish prospered together. The Fraser sockeye are demonstrating
this opportunity still exists.
*Thirty-four million sockeye returned to the Fraser and we don’t know
why. *They
thrived in spite of us. Imagine if we worked intelligently with this fish,
with our forests, and with the marine and fresh water environments. We won
the lottery this year, but societies cannot survive on the luck of the draw.
We are rich, but only as long as we remain ecologically intact.
*The life cycle of salmon spans the province of British Columbia* from the
headwaters, through our towns to the coast. If we considered them essential
and gauged our behavior in terms of impact on wild salmon we would instantly
have to consider affects up and downstream along this living corridor. This
simple shift in vision would create a social and ecological maturity with
enormous possibility. We could work with rather than against our natural
resources. Today's, governments appear blind to long-term prosperity* *beyond
their term in office.
*We still live in a democracy so we can change government, but* it is not
enough to just let elections happen to us. We need candidates that will take
care of the home we share. Imagine being happy to pay taxes, because you
believed in your government?
*Here is what I propose.* Keeping your current party membership, let’s build
an enormous voting block across all parties standing for the values above.
Starting in November, I will contact every politician in British Columbia to
hear their plan to achieve sustainable prosperity based on sound social,
ecological and economic principles. Wild salmon are a living icon of
democracy and we choose their name to represent us www.wildsalmonpeople.ca
If politicians don't answer, I will post that too, but the more of us there
are the more answers we will get. If there are enough of us a political
party will rise or adapt to meet us. This is our home and we have every
right to have a say in what happens here. At the next election we need to
be ready to vote for what is best for us.
I am on a mission for wild salmon over the next 30 days traveling throughout
the Fraser watershed to learn from the wild salmon people of this river. On
the 20th we begin a 5 day paddle from Hope to Vancouver and on the 25th we
will land at Vanier Park in Vancouver and walk to the opening of the sockeye
Inquiry to support Justice Cohen in his very difficult pursuit of truth
about what is happening to these fish. You can follow this journey at *
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/*
Alexandra Morton
250-974-7086
"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"
