Salmon & Steelhead Hatcheries: Conservation or Condemnation?

Wild salmon and steelhead are as fundamental to the Pacific Northwest as evergreen trees and rain. For thousands of years ecosystems and economies have relied on the bountiful marine nutrients annually running inland from the Pacific Ocean in the form of large, silver fish. Even today, the chance to tangle with one of these wild gems is one of the greatest gifts the Northwest has to offer. Early settlers of the West Coast witnessed seemingly infinite salmon abundance. But as time passed and humans increasingly exploited both salmon and their ecosystems, they found out just how finite salmon really were. Instead of a cure for the problem, early managers chose a band-aid: salmon hatcheries. It now appears that band-aid may have worsened the affliction. There are now nearly 250 salmon hatchery facilities on the West Coast producing hundreds of millions of juvenile fish every year. A debate over the efficiency and wisdom of this practice has been simmering for nearly a century. A growing body of scientific research indicates that hatcheries may have detrimental effects on the remaining wild salmon and steelhead. Only recently have management agencies begun to concede. Big changes are now afoot. The future of salmon hatcheries is as uncertain, as the future of the salmon themselves. This piece explores the West Coast‟s complicated social and political relationship with salmon hatcheries through the theme of fathers and sons fishing together. The stories I tell illustrate the arguments for continuing hatchery supplementation, the arguments for improving it and the arguments for stopping it

Healing Richard Nixon: A Doctor\u27s Memoir

Richard M. Nixon remains an enigma even thirty years after his resignation. Of the many portraits of this complex man, none have been more intimate or revealing than this memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than forty years, John C. Lungren, M.D. Dr. Lungren, with his son and co-author John C. Lungren Jr., portrays Nixon as a paradoxical man—intense, compassionate, guarded, intelligent, resilient, deeply religious, enormously successful but ultimately tragic. Lungren describes his battle to restore the president’s health after his resignation and reveals previously unknown details about Nixon’s two intensive hospitalizations, his near fatal vascular collapse, and his depression. Lungren experienced firsthand Nixon’s thoughts and feelings during the public scrutiny of federal prosecution for his role in the Watergate break-in. Accused of shielding his friend, Lungren himself came under fire; his private office was even burgled in an apparent attempt to copy Nixon’s private medical records. Using previously unpublished sources, original correspondence, and private photographs, Healing Richard Nixon places Nixon in a new light. No future research or conclusions about Nixon—the man or the president—will be complete without consulting this fascinating memoir. The late John C. Lungren M.D. became Richard Nixon\u27s personal physician in 1952. John C Lungren Jr. is a former reporter for Knight-Ridder and author of Hesburgh of Notre Dame:Priest, Educator, Public Servant. Lungren describes the real Nixon, as he struggled with and ultimately overcame near-fatal illness, depression, and political ridicule to become an ‘elder statesman’ constructively advancing international stability. —Choice Rather than retelling the familiar facts, the authors provide a fresh perspective: that of Nixon’s personal physician, a post the senior Lungren held from 1952 until the early 1980s. —ForeWord Out of all the books written about President Richard Nixon, the Lungrens have authored one of the few chronicles I find to be totally accurate. Brings the reader a personal view of Nixon which only would be available to a long-time personal friend and a doctor who stayed within his code of ethics even under the pressure of Watergate. —Herbert G. Klein, Former Nixon Administration White House Director of Communications Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand all the dimensions of a great architect of peace. —John H. Taylor, Director, Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Valuable for its conversation about Nixon\u27s medical ordeals. Dr. Lungren admires Nixon but recognized some of his faults. —Library Journalhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_history/1023/thumbnail.jp

Introduction

Immigration has been our heritage. It has largely determined who we are as well as who we will be. It is not merely a cliche-we are indeed a land of immigrants

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

This Article examines the recent passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). The author discusses previous legislative attempts to control immigration and the legislative evolution of this new immigration reform bill. The author highlights the major provisions that are integral to comprehensive immigration reform legislation

Radiology and Global Health: The Case for a New Subspecialty

In high- and medium-income countries, the use of radiology has grown substantially in the last several decades. But in the developing world, access to medical imaging remains a critical problem. Unlike more structured efforts in the field of global health, interventions in global radiology have been largely unplanned, fragmented and sometimes irrelevant to the needs of the recipient society, and have not resulted in any significant progress. Access to medical imaging around the world remains dismal. There is a therefore a clear and urgent need for the radiology community to develop a vision for global radiology, beginning with defining the scope of the subject and establishing measurable goals. Agreement must be reached to declare global radiology as a bona fide subspecialty of radiology. This should soon be followed by the establishment of divisions of Global Radiology in academic radiology departments. Resident and medical students should be taught how physicians in low -income countries practice medicine without access to adequate radiology. As part of training and electives, residents and medical students should accompany global health teams to countries where the need for radiology services is great. Global scholar exchange and sabbatical opportunities should be offered to staff radiologists. Successful implementation of a unified vision of global radiology has the potential to improve access to medical imaging on a large scale. Radiology journals dedicated to the promotion of global radiology can play an important role in providing forums of discussion, analyses and sharing of field experiences. In this discussion we have attempted to make a case for assigning global radiology a subspecialty status