Sam Fletcher
Salish Current News Editor Sam Fletcher’s work can also be found in Earth Island Journal, Atlas Obscura, The Seattle Times and elsewhere. A journalism graduate of Western Washington University, he has reported for the Columbia Basin Herald and the Whidbey News-Times. Sam has been a fiction editor, a dive guide and a naturalist on a whale-watching boat. He enjoys writing about nature and its creatures and is often in the woods or on the beach with his boxer-shepherd, Nala.
Beyond the salmon crisis: Northwest may face broad loss of freshwater species
Using eDNA to map and save lower-profile species crucial to the ecosystem, researchers say