From the Bellingham Herald yesterday on an effort underway to honor Billy Frank Jr.: “It comes with a bit of heartache that we have a street named Indian Street, because that means so many different things to so many different people,” Murphy said during an afternoon council meeting June 15. “So many people identify with […]
Tribal hatchery managers are working to save salmon from potentially deadly water temperatures and low flows. On the Olympic Peninsula, the Makah Tribe’s Hoko Hatchery released chinook three weeks early and sockeye a month early. “In the summer, we’re usually looking at flows of 100 gallons a minute – we’re already at 160 gallons a […]
Thanks to a concerted effort by staff at the Nisqually Tribe’s community garden, tribal members can have regular access to nettles, an important traditional food. Nettles – despite their stinging reputation – are a highly nutritious and seasonally important plant to the tribe’s culture. Nettles begin growing in early spring. Until then, tribal members would […]
A U.S. District Court judge has affirmed the Quinault Indian Nation’s sovereignty over Lake Quinault and thrown out a case questioning the tribe’s authority to manage the lake. “This quick and explicit ruling was never in doubt,” said Quinault Nation President Fawn Sharp in a statement. “As I said back in January, Lake Quinault is […]
The Tacoma News Tribune reported on the latest project of Tacoma Power’s hydroelectric program on the North Fork of the Skokomish River, as part of the 2009 settlement with the Skokomish Tribe. While adjustments have made to the dams on the river to allow for improved fish passage, a natural feature called Little Falls, two miles downstream […]
Over at Keep Seafood Clean, you should read an essay by Lower Elwha vice-chair Russ Hepfer about why a strong water quality rule would protect all Washingtonians: State government has wrestled for decades with updating the standards that are supposed to protect us from toxics in our water that end up in the food we […]
Nano Perez and Tom Friedrich were surveying the Nisqually River for spawning steelhead when they came upon a wounded bald eagle. The tribal staff members were on hand yesterday when the bird was released, healthy, back to the river. From King 5: The soon realized the beaver was a bird. “Kind of hopping around – […]
Mark Trahant in Indian Country Today looks at the formation of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and how the tribes up there are drawing on the experience of tribes down here: On May 8, 2015, 28 tribes on the Kuskokwim River started down another path, assuming co-management of fish in the river system by creating […]
Carl Burke, a contract lobbyist working for Puget Sound Anglers and the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, made a strong statement about how his employers feel about the North of Falcon process during a recent state senate workshop yesterday. Burke said: The issue we have with the tribes occasionally, specifically in the North of Falcon, is […]
Late last week, the Puyallup Tribe released 30,000 steelhead into the upper White River. This is an interesting hatchery program that is showing real results in saving a disappearing run of steelhead. We wrote more about it last year: The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is releasing young steelhead from an acclimation pond in the upper […]
