The moment I drew the copy of Marilyn Sigman’s new Entangled; People and Ecological Change in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay from it’s University of Chicago Press envelope, I had a bit of a flashback. As a young man, my father and I made the annual summer journey with so many of the other north Oregon coast commercial fisherman to work in the salmon fishery in Bristol Bay – a mere hundred miles and change to the west of Kachemak.
Now living too far from the lower Columbia for comfort these days, the ebb and flow of the fishing seasons aren’t the large part of my life that they were back then, which is why I am so looking forward to discovering what Ms. Sigman has written about the people, wildlife, and cycles of life in Kachemak
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