30th Anniversary of Gila Descending: Earth Matters Interview with Dutch Salmon
30th Anniversary of Gila Descending
Earth Matters Interview with Dutch Salmon
Tuesday/Thursday 10 am and 8 pm on
Gila/Mimbres Community Radio www.gmcr.org
In May 1983, avid hunter, fisherman, outdoorsman and writer, Dutch Salmon, made a 200 mile journey by foot and canoe down the Gila River from its headwaters at Bead Spring to the Solomon Dam in Arizona.
This wasn’t any old journey, since Dutch’s companions were his hound dog, Rojo, and his tomcat. This week on Earth Matters, host Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of the Gila Resources Information Project and the Gila Conservation Coalition, talks with Dutch as he reminisces about his adventure, canoeing and fishing the Gila, mountain men, and river protection. Dutch wrote about his journey in the book, Gila Descending, now in its fourth printing.
You can listen to Dutch’s interview on Earth Matters Tuesday and Thursday at 10 am and 8pm via web stream and any time via podcast.
Copies of Gila Descending can be purchased through High-Lonesome Books or O’Keefe’s Bookshop.