Abstract for Paper

While the community should care about climate change, the damage has been done. Now it is moving on and dealing with the affects and educating people on the effects of climate change. Now people need to be aware and more caring about how they can help salmon. And why it is important to be conscious about climate change and its effects on salmon. There is a plethora of reasons and effects that climate change has done to the environment and primarily salmon. These reasons and effects are important to know and understand, especially how salmon effect many people in different ways. To name a few, it affects the local economy of the Northwest, local tribal groups, commercial fishermen, other species in the environment, entire ecosystems. The environment and ecosystems of salmon is very delicate balance and when something it thrown off by precipitation, rising temperatures, and so on. These scientific observations and direct affects, the public sphere needs to take this account and begin helping with restoration efforts and being more consciously Green.

-Mary Jane-