The essays and talks in A Watershed Runs through You hold the formative insights that inform Freeman House’s acclaimed Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species—the central place of salmon in the ecology and culture of the Cascadia bioregion and the critical role of human communities in the restoration of its home watersheds. In these engaging, lyrical essays, some written as early as the 1970s, House’s words are more relevant than ever, prescient and far-ranging in their vision, offering equal parts inspiration and on-the-ground knowledge for our increasingly climate-challenged times. With an eloquent foreword by Stephanie Mills, an early passionate voice for bioregionalism, this collection is a tribute to the enduring legacy of Freeman House’s vision. As Mills writes, “Not every watershed will find a voice like that of Freeman House. But every watershed needs such streaming wisdom.”

FREEMAN HOUSE was a social activist and commercial fisherman turned watershed restorationist who cofounded the Mattole Restoration Council and Mattole Salmon Group on the Mattole and Sinkyone ancestral lands of northern California. He passed away in 2018 at the age of eighty, leaving a tremendous legacy of bioregional awareness and communitybased environmental organizing through his decades worth of writings and the organizations that uphold his visions to this day.

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