My very first day of work at SPSSEG was Docent training day out at Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail. Although I have worked in one way or another in the salmon recovery field on and off for the last three years, I was enraptured as Lance described spawning behavior, a critical facet of salmon biology that I had yet to learn much about. And suddenly as I walked the trail and watched the fish in the creeks, I was filled with stark clarity – now I was privy to a secret salmon language.