Opening the Account

The Little Salmon River Watershed is a ledger written in wood, iron, and silt. After spending decades as a benthic taxonomist, I have returned to the northern Adirondack dome to conduct a final audit of the land my ancestors were once paid to flay.

This is not a management plan. It is a generational accounting of the material debt between the watershed and the people who claim it. This is a record of the interest being paid back by the sponges, the trout, and the silt.