Being Frank

The pictures don't lie. Climate change combined with the continued loss of salmon habitat caused by human development is taking a toll on natural resources. The damage to salmon and…

A basic rule of natural resources management today is that you don’t take too much of something unless you have a good idea how much there is to begin with.…

Tribes and orcas have a lot in common. Together, we have always depended on the salmon for food. The last 100 years have been hard on the tribes, the orcas…

More than 1,500 salmon were seen spawning in Coho Creek on the Tulalip Tribes’ reservation last fall. Pretty good considering 10 years ago, the creek was nothing but a drainage…

Producing and protecting salmon go hand in hand for the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington, and we are doing a lot more of both lately. At a time when…

These tough economic times are supposed to be getting better, but it’s clear we will be feeling the effects of the recession for a long time. That makes us tribes…

The State Supreme Court chose to pass the buck when it ruled recently that the Municipal Water Law doesn’t violate the state constitution. Back in 2003, a number of tribes,…

It wasn't long ago that all salmon returning to western Washington were lumped together and managed as a whole. Only after the treaty tribes became co-managers in the 1970s did…

The mud and the water have always been a source of food. But when we start to see shorelines and rivers not as places where we get our food, but…

It's raining hard today, the first heavy rain we've seen in awhile, and it makes me feel good. The air is clean, the fish are moving up the rivers and…