Our salmon carcass tossing trips play an important role in moving “marine derived nutrients” to the forest. As a salmon grows up in the ocean, it’s consuming massive amounts of food and growing to be many times the size it was when it left its freshwater stream. These nutrients in turn are deposited into forest ecosystems when the salmon returns to the freshwater stream to spawn and die. The nutrients feed both animals and plants! When hatchery salmon return from the ocean, they are harvested for eggs and milt to start a new generation of salmon. It’s our task to take the carcasses of the harvested salmon and return them to historic nesting grounds! This transports all the essential nutrients that the salmon absorb while out at sea to the rivers where the next generation grows!

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Pre-Trip Presentation

 Here’s our Salmon Tossing pre-field trip presentation.

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