The book goes way beyond "just" habitat and the unraveling of a watershed post-logging post deluge. The increase in fishing pressure by recs, commercial, and subsistence. The use of boats to access stream reaches. Bob ran one of, if not the, first jet boat on Vancouver Island. Which meant he enjoyed the fruits of fishing virgin water and then saw what happened when more joined in.

The value of reading it, in my mind, is that it is a documented witness to what the collective "We" did to steelhead, and by extension salmon. If we don't try to learn from history, we will repeat it. By the same token, we need to decide if we really want to save those resources because of what we would have to give up, individually and as a society.