Tucker Malarkey in Conversation With Guido Rahr & Fiona McCann

In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold (Spiegel & Grau) is Tucker Malarkey’s gripping account of one man’s determination to protect the world’s last bastion for wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among his family and classmates, preferring to spend his time in the natural world, on his family’s land on the Deschutes River in Oregon. Over the years, as he became an expert fly fisherman, he noticed that each year fewer salmon were returning to their place of birth to spawn, and set out to learn why. What he discovered alarmed him; as the river homes of these fish became increasingly inhospitable to them, due to dams, industry, and climate change, the salmon of the Pacific Rim seemed destined to quickly go the way of the salmon that once filled the Atlantic Ocean: near extinction. Malarkey will be joined in conversation by Guido Rahr, president and CEO of the Wild Salmon Center, and Fiona McCann, senior editor-at-large at Portland Monthly magazine. This event is sponsored by the Wild Salmon Center.