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Salmon Issue
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What You Can Do |
| In Your Home | At School | In Your Community |
Conserve Water
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Make students and teachers more aware of the issue
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Join a watershed organization Pick up trash |
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Why do the Salmon Need Help?
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| In order to survive, salmon need to have a
specific kind of habitat (place where they live). The water needs to be within a certain
temperature range, it can't be polluted with chemicals or clouded with dirt and debris,
there has to be a lot of water in the riverbed, they need calm, cool gravelly spots in
which to lay their eggs, and an un-blocked way to get to and from the sea (salmon coming
home from the sea are on a race against time. Their bodies can only survive in the
freshwater for a limited amount of time before they die, and so they need to be able to
get up the river quickly). The rivers which salmon have lived in for centuries naturally fulfill all of these requirements, but when people came into the picture, we started changing things. We built dams to produce electricity for ourselves (blocking the rivers and changing the temperature), started making trails along riversides (causing erosion), grew lawns/gardens which required fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide (chemicals that eventually end up in streams). Now salmon need our help to get back the river that God designed them to survive in. |
Make Your School Aware |
Why? |
Create a poster that gives information about the Salmon issue. Hang it up in school. Talk to your teachers about you making a special presentation to the class about the issue Ask your teachers about spending some time as a class researching the issue. Find out if the appliances and lights in the school are energy effiecient, if they aren't, talk to the principal about changing that. |
Make Your Community Aware |
Why? |
Create a t-shirt for yourself that makes a statement. Talk to your friends and neighbors about the issue. |