When she was first elected as a tribal leader in 2006, Fawn Sharp, now the vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state, confronted an ecological catastrophe: the virtual end of the sockeye salmon run.
“We used to have millions of sockeye salmon returning," Sharp said. "The year I got elected, we only had 3,000.”
Sharp later learned that issues like warming ocean temperatures and rising acidity in the seawater, along with the shrinking glaciers that feed the river that bears ...