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Volume III, Issue 1, Special Edition 1
Dear Wild Salmon Center Friend
I'm writing a special note to announce major news in our State of the Salmon program. Funded in March 2003 by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, State of the Salmon is a joint program of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust and is dedicated to Pacific salmon study throughout the entire North Pacific ecosystem. Our team includes science, policy, cartography, database, linguistic, and communications experts, and an international network of salmon specialists - dedicated to building a knowledge system focused on wild Pacific salmon.
This month we're releasing the Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Status Assessment of North Pacific Salmon, written by Dr. Xan Augerot, Wild Salmon Center Director of Science Programs and State of the Salmon Co-director. The Atlas is available now from the University of California Press.
The Atlas presents Pacific salmon distribution and risk of extinction at one consistent scale across the Pacific. With more than four dozen maps, stunning photography and a unique multidisciplinary presentation of salmon science and conservation in the context of North Pacific people and places the Atlas is a tremendous accomplishment.
Next month we are convening the State of the Salmon Conference 2005 in Anchorage, Alaska, from April 17-20, 2005. Simultaneously interpreted in three languages, the conference will convene upwards of 200 salmon specialists from around the Pacific Rim to shape the future of Pacific salmon policy and provide an underpinning of sound comparable status trend data across the range.
This event, "Building the New Agenda for North Pacific Salmon Conservation," includes key decision makers, opinion leaders, scientists, and fisheries managers; panels will host luminaries to discuss the three core elements of a North Pacific salmon knowledge system: habitat, biology, and management. We will also host a round table focusing on communications between scientists, the public and policy makers. A day-long series of workshops follows the conference. Keynote speakers include: The Honorable John Fraser, Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council; Dr. Nathan Mantua, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group; and Fran Ulmer, former Lt. Governor of Alaska. The conference will serve as an important forum in which to introduce the Atlas and our Pacific Salmon IMAKS—International Monitoring and Assessment Knowledge system, which includes an international monitoring strategy and a suite of tools that will enable scientists to collect data more effectively.
Please consider purchasing the Atlas of Pacific Salmon, and joining us in Alaska April 17-20.
Guido Rahr, President and CEO