Special Reports

Comprehensive Tribal Natural Resources Management 2010 now available

The new “Comprehensive Tribal Natural Resources Management” report is now available for download. This report covers tribal natural resources activities during the last year.

Here is a selection from the introduction by chairman Billy Frank, Jr.:

We are the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington. We are salmon people. We have lived here for thousands of years. We depend on the natural resources of the Pacific Northwest to sustain our way of life.

For more than 150 years, we have fought countless battles to protect the salmon and the fishing rights that we reserved in treaties with the United States. We are natural resources co-managers with the state of Washington and leaders in salmon recovery. For us, the fight to save the salmon continues where we live – every day in every watershed.

The report is embedded below, but you can also download a pdf version here.
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Intergovernmental Policy Council Annual Report 2008

The coastal treaty Indian tribes and the state of Washington as co-managers continue to work with the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) to achieve a shared vision of priorities for understanding and protecting the marine environment and improving the lives of all who depend on the sea.

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