Dave Sones of the Makah Tribe was on KUOW’s Weekday this morning, talking about the dire situation coast-wide for salmon, but also about how important habitat is for their recovery. The Seattle PI’s environmental blog also wrote about the Weekday show here. You can listen to the entire show here, but here’s a bit of […]
Chris Dunagan of the Sun had a great story on a later afternoon meeting between tribal and state fishermen during the North of Falcon process: Tribal and nontribal fishermen may have their differences in background and culture, but they share a passion for telling fish stories. “We all, as fishermen, get that bug in the […]
From the Federal Way Mirror: The salmon population in the Hylebos Creek is growing thanks to the work of students at Spring Valley Montessori School in Federal Way. Every year for nearly 20 years, students at Spring Valley annually raise salmon from eggs to fingerlings, then release them into a creek that feeds into the […]
The Squaxin Island Tribe is buying a new barge, custom built in Port Townsend: “It’s a beautiful craft,” said resource technician Dave George Krise of the Squaxin Island Tribe as the Travelift approached to hoist the tribe’s new barge from the shipyard to the boat haven. With the boat at the dock, still suspended over […]
Vivian Lee, chair of the Hoh Tribe, and Mike Hagen, their director of land management, had a great column in the Seattle PI this morning: Riprap speeds the river’s flow, eliminating resting areas important to fish. It prevents rivers from creating natural logjams that are important in creating diverse fish habitat. Adding riprap is like […]
OLYMPIA (December 20, 2007) — The status quo isn’t always something to cheer about, but when it comes to securing federal funding for tribal natural resource management during tough budgetary times, the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington are applauding the efforts of the state’s congressional delegation. “Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and U.S. […]
Chris Dunagan over at Watching Our Water Ways notes the generous nature of the last Salmon Recovery Funding Board grant round: This round of SRF Board funding was interesting in another way. Five different watershed groups in Puget Sound voluntarily pooled a portion of their grant money to further a 700-acre restoration in the Nisqually […]
NISQUALLY (December 13, 2007) – Four neighboring watershed organizations are chipping in nearly $1 million toward a 700-acre estuary restoration project on the Nisqually River. The restoration project at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge will be the most extensive salmon restoration project in Western Washington. “Juvenile salmon from all across South Sound use the Nisqually […]
Pat Neal, a longtime outdoors writer from the Olympic Peninsula had a great column recently about the history of fisheries management and the Fish Wars. Here it is, in its entirety: Thank you for reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this no one would. But you do. I know this because you […]
Here are the videos of the recent NWIFC/State Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting, provided by TVW. Segment A:
