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NWIFC Magazine: Camas saved and planted in community garden

By • Apr 5th, 2011 • Category: NWIFC Blog, NWIFC Magazine

The new NWIFC Magazine is online and features a story about how the Nisqually Tribe rescued a rare and culturally important plant. From the Magazine:

Two hundred camas bulbs that were almost buried under a new road are now part of the Nisqually Tribe’s community garden.

“We  got  these  plants  out  just in time,” said Caitlin Krenn, the community    garden    coordinator.  A  work

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NWIFC Magazine: Glaciers, climate change and salmon

By • Mar 31st, 2010 • Category: NWIFC Blog, NWIFC Magazine

The new NWIFC News features a story about the concerns of the Quinault Indian Nation about shrinking glaciers that feed two major coastal rivers. From the magazine:

The glaciers that feed the Queets and Quinault rivers are just fractions of their size today from a few decades ago. As they recede, they threaten salmon stocks important to the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN).

“These glaciers once provided

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NWIFC Magazine: Seabird Deaths Highlight Need for More Ocean Research

By • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: NWIFC Blog, NWIFC Magazine

The new NWIFC Magazine features the efforts of coastal tribes to track harmful algea blooms in the Pacific Ocean and their impact on wildlife and fish stocks.

From the magazine:

In only the second incident of its kind reported in scientific journals on the West Coast, thousands of seabirds died on the Washington coast as the result of the effects of a harmful algae bloom.

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NWIFC Magazine: Good management yields wild results

By • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog, NWIFC Magazine

The new NWIFC Magazine features a round up of salmon management successes by the tribes which are yielding results for all fishermen.

From the management roundup:

While overall salmon populations continue to decline mostly because of lost and damaged habitat, 2009 was a bright year for many stocks. Indian and non-Indian fishermen enjoyed harvests in some areas for the first time in years. While the tribal

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NWIFC Magazine: Hard Work Brings Results

By • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Magazine

A look back on the 25 year history of tribal and state fisheries co-management is one of the featured stories in the newest NWIFC Magazine, which you can download as a pdf here: .

Lorraine Loomis, the Swinomish Tribe’s fisheries manager, has participated in every North of Falcon process since the 1980s and acts at the treaty tribes’ lead negotiator. From the article:

Cooperative co-management continues

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NWIFC Magazine: Quinault leads the fight on fish disease

By • Apr 13th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Magazine

The work by the Quinault Indian Nation to combat fish disease is one of the featured stories in the new NWIFC Magazine. You can download the entire magazine as a pdf file here: .

From the article:

Like humans, fish can carry pathogens that don’t kill them. Different strains of the same pathogen, however, can be lethal. That’s the problem confronting the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN)

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