Alaska poet John Haines said the land gets into everything. Amy Gulick’s message is that in Southeast Alaska, salmon get into everything and most notably the region’s giant trees.

Gulick, a Washington-state based writer and nature photographer, didn’t come up with that notion. She read about it in a scientific article describing “the upstream flow of marine nutrients in a terrestrial environment.”

But the idea took hold of her. “Even as dry as the article…