On March 11, 7pm, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s Momentum Festival in welcoming Amy Gulick, the author of The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind, a newly published book from Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books.

Alaskans have deeply personal relationships with their salmon. These remarkable fish provide a fundamental source of food, livelihood, and identity, and connect generations and communities throughout the state. Yet while salmon are integral to the lives of many Alaskans, the habitat they need to thrive is increasingly at risk from large-scale development that threatens both the fish and valued ways of life. As communities wrestle with how best to ensure that both salmon and people prosper in today’s world, it is clear that Alaskans are united in their desire for their salmon relationships to continue. Forever.

Intrigued that there is still a place in the world where the lives of people and salmon are inextricably linked, writer and photographer Amy Gulick ventured to Alaska to explore the web of human relationships that revolve around these remarkable fish.