Presented by The Community Library in partnership with the Idaho Conversation League and the Climate Action Coalition of the Wood River Valley
In celebration of Earth Day 2022, Kurt Tardy and Rob Trahant joined us to discuss their salmon recovery work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. They shared the history of the Tribes’ fishing practices along Idaho’s rivers and current tribal resource management and inter-agency coordination, including specific projects at Pettit Lake and on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. They also looked ahead to the future of sockeye and chinook, rivers and dam management, and climate change before inviting your questions.
Kurt Tardy, Fisheries Manager, is an anadromous fish biologist who has worked with the Shoshone-Bannock tribes in central Idaho for nearly a decade. Kurt’s focus is on fish restoration, with the long-term goal of restoring salmon and steelhead populations to their historic abundance and the short-term goal of saving them from impending extinction.
Rob Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock) is a fisheries technician for the Tribes and lead technician on the Pettit Lake Weir facility. He has worked since 1995 on sockeye recovery efforts in the Sawtooth Basin.
