2012 FIRST FRIDAY LECTURE SERIES - 100-Year Anniversary of the Quilcene Fish Hatchery.

2012 FIRST FRIDAY LECTURE SERIES In the Council Chambers of Port Townsend's historic city hall (540 Water Street)on the first Friday of each month at 7 p.m.

Dan Magneson, fishery biologist, celebrates the “100-Year Anniversary of the Quilcene Fish Hatchery.”

Dan Magneson, Fishery Biologist for the Quilcene National Fish Hatchery, will be the featured speaker at the Jefferson County Historical Society First Friday Lecture on February 3. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Port Townsend’s historic city council chamber, 540 Water Street.  Admission is by donation which supports historical society programs.  

Magneson’s talk, entitled “Hoover, Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee Dams: The Great Depression, World War II and Fishery Resources”, will explore the historical significance of the dams and the detrimental environmental consequences that followed their construction.  The large-scale public works provided thousands of jobs for desperate people during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The finished dams created economic benefits such as electric power generation, improved inland navigation, flood control, and the creation of reliable water supplies in arid regions of the American west.  However, Magneson  says, “The negative impact that these dams would ultimately have on the fishery resources of these rivers, and especially upon species such as salmon, was recognized—and then largely dismissed.”

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