September Members’ Book Club Discussion
September 25 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion: Online – September 25th 5:30-6:30pm
September Book selection: Stronghold: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon by Tucker Malarkey
Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey’s eye-opening account of an unlikely visionary and his crusade to protect the world’s last bastion of wild salmon. An obsessive fly fisherman, Guido Rahr noticed when the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest began to decline–and was one of the few who understood why. As dams, industry, and climate change degraded the homes of these magnificent fish, Rahr saw that the salmon of the Pacific Rim were destined to go the way of their Atlantic brethren: near extinction. An improbable and inspiring story, Stronghold takes us on a wild adventure, from Oregon to Alaska to one of the world’s last remaining salmon strongholds in the Russian Far East, a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber. Tucker Malarkey, who joins Rahr in the Russian wilderness, has written a clarion call for a sustainable future, a remarkable work of natural history, and a riveting account of a species whose future is closely linked to our own.