The epic life story of a wild coho salmon comes to an end in the Oregon Coast Range – BLM video: Scott Lightcap Last Friday, a BLM fisheries biologist doing a spawning survey in southwest Oregon found one of the great natural stories that defines the Pacific Northwest: A salmon returning home to the stream of its birth to lay eggs and die. Here is the story, from the words of fisheries biologist Scott Lightcap, after his find in Little Wolf Creek, a tributary to the Umpqua River: This wild femal

11K views · 102 reactions | Oregon Coast coho salmon begin life in small tributaries. After emerging from gravel in early spring, fry spend the next year in freshwater—often sticking close to backwater pools, beaver ponds, lakes, and wetlands—before starting their ocean adventures. As young coho migrate downriver, many take a pit stop in coastal estuaries to feed, grow strong, and slowly acclimate to saltwater. | Wild Salmon Center | Facebook