Teresa explained that when the colonists took jurisdiction of the waters and forests, they forbade use of the stone traps. The salmon were overfished within the first two decades and have yet to recover fully. Climate change and a warming Pacific Ocean have created new problems by exhausting the fish on their marathon from the ocean, reducing their success at reaching the natal spawning streams. It’s part of a general pattern of destroying interconnecting habitats. To the north on Haida Gwaii, the last of the cedars, some more than a thousand years old, are being clear-cut on Graham Island,
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