Discovery Speaker Series: Save our Wild Salmon with Joseph Bogaard!
Join Puget Sound Estuarium at the Olympia Timberland Library for our Discovery Speaker Series. Every 1st Thursday of the month we invite you to learn and stay informed about current environmental research or sustainability projects. You’ll hear from Scientists, Educators, Artists, and Earth Advocates about their current work, research, or organization. Plus get your questions answered live after the talk!
November’s presentation is: Save our Wild Salmon with Joseph Bogaard!
About the presentation:
Columbia-Snake River Salmon: So much more than a fish! Join us for a conversation with Joseph Bogaard, executive director of the Save Our wild Salmon Coalition to learn about what’s working – and what isn’t – as our region strives to rebuild healthy salmon populations and the many benefits they bring to our communities and lands and waters. Restoring abundant salmon and steelhead populations is essential to maintaining our region’s special identity and way of life: to protect our ecosystems, sustain many other fish and wildlife species, and honor our nation’s promises to Northwest Tribes.
About the speaker:
Joseph began working for the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition in 1996. He first got hooked on Northwest salmon restoration efforts while in graduate school where he authored a paper in the early-1990s, exploring the then-relatively recent Snake River salmon listings under the Endangered Species Act, and how it might impact the region and its federal lands and dams. Before joining the SOS team, Joseph spent many years teaching and working in the forests and mountains of the West. Today, Joseph lives on Vashon Island with his partner Amy and two children Liesl and Jeremiah. He is a former commissioner of Water District 19 (King County) and currently serves as a board member with the NW Energy Coalition and Braided River Publishing.