Wild salmon face impacts from a range of human activities. Each activity by itself will not decimate wild Pacific salmon, but the cumulative stresses are daunting – death by a thousand cuts.

Wild Pacific salmon populations have been declining over the last hundred years. The Riverscape Analysis Project’s approach is based on a river’s natural potential for salmon production and sustainability.

The basic premise of this research is that salmon thrive in a mosaic of different freshwater habitat types, which are extremely dynamic, shifting through time.