Jim Lichatowich

Remember Jim for his wine making and personality. My Best to you Paulette.

Jim was an incridible fisheries biologist who really understood what wild steelhead and salmon need and his books will long be regarded as the bibles for wild salmonid management. Thanks for sall the great work Jim! Frank Amato

Jim was an amazing scientist, author, colleague, and mentor. I got to know Jim when he served on science groups for the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. His early work on the Independent Scientific Group culminated in the report Return to the River, which reviewed the Fish and Wildlife Program and set a course for a conceptual foundation based on burgeoning scientific thinking on restoring ecological processes rather than relying...

Jim got it right about salmon recovery. First of all, he pushed the understanding that hatcheries could never restore salmon runs to their former numbers, due to the inherent weakness of raising juveniles in artificial environments. Second, he showed that all the links in the chain of habitats had to be in place and healthy for wild salmonids to recover - hatching and rearing habitat, downstream migration, ocean conditions, upstream migration, spawning habitat, etc. Jim's thinking guided...