More accurate fish consumption rate expected in 2014
A more accurate state fish consumption rate should be in place by next year, Maia Bellon, director of the state Department of Ecology, told tribal leaders and U.S. Environmental Protection…
Ecology really is just kicking the can down the road
Jordan Schrader's article yesterday on the tribes' decision to boycott recent fish consumption rate meetings leaves the reader wondering why exactly they aren't participating. When I sat down with Billy…
Piling on Puget Sound (Part 3): Comments against cumulative impacts
The treaty tribes in western Washington believe that the Corps’ streamlined nationwide permit system is making it too easy to damage and destroy important nearshore salmon habitat in western Washington.…
Piling on Puget Sound (Part 2): Cumulative impacts and what we can do about them, but aren’t
It’s clear that the cumulative impacts of docks and bulkheads throughout Puget Sound are changing the character of our region, putting salmon and orca in peril and harming treaty-reserved harvest…
Piling on Puget Sound (Part 1): Cumulative impacts and how they’re hurting natural resources and Treaty Rights
The cumulative effects of shoreline modifications – such as bulkheads, mooring buoys, boat ramps and docks – are among the most significant contributors to the loss and decline of salmon…
Boeing Pledges Duwamish Cleanup
Boeing also will repay almost $2 million of the natural resource trustees: NOAA, the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Washington State Department of Ecology, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Suquamish Tribe and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. The settlement resolves the natural trustees' claims against Boeing, for natural resource damages under the Superfund statute, the Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act, and Washington's Model Toxics Control Act."
Puget Sound Rockfish listed
"Canary and yelloweye rockfish now are deemed “threatened” and a third rockfish species – bocaccio – is now legally considered “endangered.” An endangered species is at high risk of extinction; a threatened species is vulnerable to extinction in the near future and in need of protection."
Herald: Place Name Book Helps Preserve Language
Here's a story from the Bellingham Herald on a new book of place names: A new book coming out from University of British Columbia Press will detail those and more…