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Sustainability

The Longest Walk to Save the Salmon

KHSU | By Claire Reynolds

Published November 21, 2017 at 1:59 PM PST

"Every step is a prayer. Every mile is a ceremony." Ray St. Clair called in from Santa Rosa during the Longest Walk to Save the Salmon. Ray and others started walking on November 1st in Seattle and will end with a gathering at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay on the 23rd, for the annual un-thanksgiving day sunrise ceremony.

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