Ventura River

And the second thing was how this fellow changed the minds of, of his fellow citizens and got, got it reversed.

The Ventura River was not channelized.

And that there was a kind of beauty in working with small grassroots efforts to save a particular place.

Mm.

They carried food, people, goods, ideas.

but now turn the map around and look at the pacific coast of north america the ocean was a highway here too and the highways went inland up the columbia river up the fraser the esquina the stickeen the copper the yukon farther south the colorado and hundreds of smaller rivers between like the ventura river People didn't need to paddle from Alaska to California carrying a bag of copper.

Goods moved from one people to another, from coast to river, river to trail, one trading partner to the next.

And what made that all possible was remarkably simple.

We changed the way we get some of it.

Civilizations have changed.

but salmon is still dinner it's still here it's still with us and that salmon extends from the ventura river in ventura california all the way up to the yukon river in an area that has a larger coastal trading region than the mediterranean half with the groups of people with different languages that developed different homes different boats different trading routes taking corn from the mesoamericas bringing it up north to alaska taking copper from alaska bringing it down south to mesoamerica and allowing one of the most abundant large trade routes that provided a civilization was there.

And it all came because of a fish, salmon.