CORRECTIONS

Whole Earth,  Summer, 2001  

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Gremlins crept into the offices during production of the Spring 2001 issue and caused several mistakes, for which we apologize.

During editing, two paragraphs mysteriously disappeared from Seth Zuckerman's "Nice Boulders, but Where's the Fish" [page 71]. The last three paragraphs should read:

As we try to coax salmon runs back to abundance, our greatest teachers and allies are the salmon themselves. From time immemorial, they thrived in a landscape marked as much by disturbance as stability. Unlike the stereotype of salmon returning unerringly to their natal streams, salmon are innately resilient and opportunistic. After Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980 and filled the Cowlitz River with ash, salmon swimming up the Columbia to the mouth of the Cowlitz smelled trouble and swam right on by, to other, undamaged tributaries. When glaciers receded from Puget Sound thousands of years ago, salmon strayed into previously ice-locked fjords and colonized newly exposed rivers. Indeed, those salmon runs helped to rebuild the soils of barren glacier-scraped landscapes with the nutrient bounty of their carcasses.

These adaptations require healthy habitat to help the fish withstand the disturbance du jour. Without big trees downstream, the Knowles Creek debris torrent would have been an unmitigated disaster. So it is up to us to protect areas that are still intact and to set the stage for watershed healing. That means addressing the sources of human-caused erosion--such as failing roads and culverts--knowing that we may not live to see the results translate into abundant salmon runs. And it calls for dogged vigilance to make sure those intact areas, which Dewberry calls anchor habitats, are not trashed. It calls for us to become attentive to what salmon are telling us--by the places they congregate and spawn successfully, the places they avoid, the seasons when they thrive and those when they decline.

For restoration to succeed, we need to recreate the context for salmon to inhabit, to have the humility to heed what they are showing us, and to find the patience for the results to manifest. Then the salmon can work their magic--on their own populations, on the landscape, and on us.

The correct address for Dan Dagget and Eco Results! [page 59] is PO Box 23713, Flagstaff, AZ 86002.

Geoff Millar, whom we identified as the editor of Sing Out! [page 23] is the managing editor. The editor is Mark D. Moss.

We should have noted that Robert Michael Pyle's essay, "Resurrection Ecology: Bring Back the Xerces Blue!" [page 68] was excerpted with the author's permission from a longer piece by the same name in the Fall 1999 issue of Wild Earth (www.wild-earth.org).

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