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In alaska this is not just a flower. it is a clock. it is a pretty magenta alert system called fire weed. when it blooms from the bottom up, the folks in codiac know the fourth of july parade is almost here. the kids in the villages know it's belly flop season. time to pick blueberries under a midnight sun. and when that color pops, the fisherman of bristol bay know they better gas their boats and man their nets because when fire weed starts blooming the salmon start running, tens of millions of them miraculously smelling

Minutes we're surrounded. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. it's rush hour. >> 11. >> my goodness. my heart is pounding like a little bunny. this is so much better than looking for tigers in india. i can't even tell you. when the sockeye jumpers start heading up stream, the bears will gorge themselves for weeks. they'll go from winter skinny to the size of fat ponies. but while the fire weed is blooming, the fish are nowhere to be found. so we'll have to be content watching them graze the meadow or dig for clams. >> the population of brown bears

Since the oil crash the dividend check sent to every alaska is shrinking along with budgets for scientist, teachers, for fish managers, making it all the more harder to say know to the world's largest gold and copper mine. >> as the climate change, as the communities change we need to be doing the best science we can to understand what's going on in the rivers and streams and oceans and at the same time building in that resilience with renewable sustainable energy and all of that will create a new economy for alaska. >> and he hopes against hope that that new economy includes salmon. if the wa...

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