Maybe one more visit to Seward is in order. I hope so, because we’re already here.
A walk along the Bear Lake trail.
And in the water, salmon.
The now-red determined fish still trying to make it to that just-right stream to spawn.
Some are done.
Some still making that last exhausted heroic effort to get there.
Through water only half as deep as they are.
In the effort, not only replenishing the salmon population, but bringing marine nutrients from hundreds or thousands of miles away to the entire food chain upstream, feeding everything from apex predators all the way down to bacteria decomposing the corpses, producing nutrients even for the plant community; an entire ecosystem that depends on healthy salmon runs up free-flowing streams.
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