Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Ed Johnstone, Quinault Indian Nation fisheries and ocean policy spokesperson, was recognized at a White House ceremony as part of the Champions for Change program April 11. Johnstone was lauded along with 11 other citizens, businesses and community leaders who are Champions of Change working to prepare their communities for the consequences of climate change.

Johnstone was honored as a voice for alerting the world to …

The documentary team of Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele featured the Swinomish Tribe in a video on the Facing Climate Change website.

Facing Climate Change: Coastal Tribes from Benjamin Drummond / Sara Steele on Vimeo.

The Swinomish Tribe has lived on the coasts of the Salish Sea for thousands of years. Today, rising seas not only threaten cultural traditions, but also the economic

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During the First Stewards climate change symposium last year, Dr. Simone Alin made a well-received presentation describing the process of ocean acidification. Alin is an oceanographer and marine chemist at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle.

As the state of Washington begins to attempt to address an issue that threatens both tribal and non-tribal communities alike, it is a good time to post a link …

The Sauk-Suiattle Tribe is studying how climate change will affect members of the tribe and the natural resources that sustain them.

“The tribe values a healthy river as equal to a healthy and vibrant human community,” said Jason Joseph, Sauk-Suiattle natural resources director. “This project will be a case study of sustainability in the face of global warming. We’re focusing on the effects on fisheries and …

KCTS9 EarthFix will be running a segment about the effects of climate change on Northwest tribes starting next week. The story is available online now.

“Without everything that’s alive, the treaties are not worth anything,” (NWIFC Chairman Billy) Frank said.

Today, Pacific salmon are facing yet another threat, which Frank fears could drive them to the brink of extinction. Salmon need the snowmelt and glacier-fed streams

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Tonight’s broadcast of PBS NewsHour is scheduled to feature the Swinomish Tribe’s Climate Change Initiative and an interview with NWIFC Chairman Billy Frank Jr:

Rising water temperatures don’t bode well for Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, who call themselves “Salmon People.”

“Our economy was built around salmon,” said Frank, who is now chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. “We’re trying to bring them back,

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Ahead of this week’s First Stewards symposium, PBS NewsHour has run a piece about the effects of climate change on the Quileute Tribe.

For centuries, the Quileute tribe has relied on the area’s ocean and rivers. Native fishermen and hunters once escaped dangerous weather along territory that stretched across the Olympic Peninsula. But that’s no longer an option.

On Washington’s rugged Pacific coast, the Quinault Indian Nation has depended on salmon for thousands of years. But the glaciers that feed the Quinault and Queets Rivers and sustain these salmon populations are in retreat because of climate change, threatening the very survival of the salmon.

In Alaska, native villages are pulling up stakes and moving to new ground as the permafrost beneath them melts and …

The inaugural First Stewards symposium, to be held July 17-20 in Washington, D.C. is a national event that examines the impact of climate change on indigenous coastal cultures and explores solutions based on millennia of traditional ecological knowledge.

Hundreds of native leaders, witnesses and climate scientists will join policy-makers and non-government organizations for groundbreaking dialogue in what is planned to be an annual meeting at the …

The Coast Salish Gathering was held Sunday through Tuesday in Cowichan, B.C.

From the Cowichan News Leader:

Dozens of West Coast chiefs and Native leaders representing 66 tribes met with scientists in Duncan this week in an effort to find new approaches to climate change.

A few hundred participants took part in a three-day Coast Salish gathering at the Qu’wutsun’ Cultural Centre to discuss what

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