International experience and practice have demonstrated the importance of functional feedback mechanisms for successful management of protected areas. One such feedback mechanism may be a multi-stakeholder advisory council, the various members of which are united by their interest in the operations and development of a given PA.
"On behalf of the Wild Salmon Center, I want to express our support for the Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007 (ESRA), which would reinvigorate efforts to recover imperiled species by providing financial incentives to deserving landowners."
"Now, in a nation with a dreary environmental record that is engaged in a rush to extract its resources, the Kamchatka Peninsula’s governments are at work on proposals that would designate seven sprawling tracts of wilderness as salmon-protected areas, a network of refuges for highly valuable fish that would be the first of its kind."
"Given this large collaborative investment, we are very interested in the future ecological condition of the Hoh River basin."
The Hoh River Trust owns and manages 4,685 acres of land to provide refugia for expression of Hoh River salmonid biodiversity outside of Olympic National Park. This paper provides a thorough historic perspective from which to manage for perpetuation of steelhead as but one indicator of the larger Hoh River ecosystem.