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From "Science Sketches" by David Starr Jordan
Fourth Edition
A. C. McClurg and Company
Chicago
1911

Interesting read even if the writer makes a glaring error - A Salmon born
in the Cowlitz going to the upper Snake River basin ( "foot of the
Bitterroot Mts". - sounds like the Clearwater River) to spawn - roughly 600
river miles upstream from the mouth of its natal river.

Bob Weinberger