{"id":1318584,"date":"2020-03-05T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=994310"},"modified":"2020-03-05T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:13:00","slug":"the-wild-sheds-light-on-battle-to-save-alaskan-salmon-fishery-from-mine-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/the-wild-sheds-light-on-battle-to-save-alaskan-salmon-fishery-from-mine-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Wild\u2019 sheds light on battle to save Alaskan salmon fishery from mine proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A popular Roaring Fork Valley fish vendor who has a vested interest in protecting Alaska\u2019s wild salmon fisheries wants people to know about a free documentary film screening in Carbondale next week.<\/p>\n

Kaleb Walker owns Kalebs Katch \u2014 a mainstay at summer farmers markets in the area \u2014 with his wife Sol Walker. He is one of the major sponsors bringing director Mark Titus\u2019s \u201cThe Wild\u201d to the Third Street Center for a 6:30 p.m. showing Tuesday, March 10.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the third film in a series of documentaries calling attention to threats to Alaska\u2019s fisheries, following \u201cRed Gold\u201d and picking up where the 2014 award-winning film \u201cThe Breach\u201d left off.<\/p>\n

The Wild shines a light on the proposed Pebble Mine, which is potentially the largest open-pit mine in North America, and would be located at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska \u2014 the largest wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis mine has been an ongoing controversy for well over a decade and something I as an Alaska fisherman and Colorado business owner have been fighting for 10 years,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThe documentary explains how, in the past few years, things have been fast-tracked politically and through inadequate EPA assessments to break ground. The Bristol Bay Watershed was almost protected with the Clean Water Act, but that has now been pushed aside.\u201d <\/p>\n

Walker started commercially fishing for sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay in 2008. His seafood business had its humble beginnings at the Glenwood Springs Saturday Farmers\u2019 Market in 2009. He can now be found at summer markets from Aspen to the Front Range.<\/p>\n

Walker said the fight against the Pebble Mine has some parallels to Glenwood Springs\u2019 fight against the proposed expansion of the Rocky Mountain Industrials limestone quarry north of town.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all of the talk about the limestone mine in Glenwood these days, I feel like there are a lot of similarities that hit home with locals right now with this documentary\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The slogan for The Wild is, \u201cHow do You Save what You Love?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman impacts over the last several hundred years have negatively affected the salmon fisheries throughout the world,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThe East Coast stocks have been wiped out, and in the West dams have become a major issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titus will be available by video after the Carbondale screening for a question-and-answer session. There will also be appetizers and door prizes, including a chance to win some sockeye salmon.<\/p>\n

The film is also being screened on March 11 at the Edwards Riverwalk Theater for the Walking Mountains Sustainable Film Series.<\/p>\n

For more information about the film, visit http:\/\/www.thewildfilm.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A popular Roaring Fork Valley fish vendor who has a vested interest in protecting Alaska\u2019s wild salmon fisheries wants people to know about a free documentary film screening in Carbondale next week. Kaleb Walker owns Kalebs Katch \u2014 a mainstay at summer farmers markets in the area \u2014 with his wife Sol Walker. He is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 09:01:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}