CONTENTS

Introduction: Wonder and Resistance

Part I: Into the Wilderness

1. THE PATH TO ACTIVISM WAS PAVED WITH SCIENCE

2. FINDING HOME

3. THE INVISIBLE FORK IN THE ROAD

4. THIS WAS NO “MISTAKE”

5. THE CLEARANCES

6. SALMON COAST FIELD STATION

7. NORWAY, THE MOTHER COUNTRY

Part II: A Year of Activism

8. GROUND-TRUTHING

9. GET OUT MIGRATION

10. COMPASS BEARING

11. MISSION FOR SALMON

12. THE COHEN COMMISSION

13. FEAR AND SILENCE

Part III: Virus Hunting

14. A REPORTABLE VIRUS

15. LOCK HER UP

16. DAMAGE TO THE HEART

Part IV: The Uprising

18. SPARKS AND DRY TINDER

19. ENDURANCE, CHAOS AND RESOLVE

20. THE BOULDER STARTS TO SLIDE

21. KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE

22. POLITICAL EXPECTATIONS

23. COURTROOM DRAMA

24. AN ANCIENT GOVERNMENT RE-EMERGING

Conclusion: Department of Wild Salmon

Acknowledgements

Photographs of events described in this book can be found at www.alexandramorton.ca