During a recent community meeting in Sequim, a panel of weather, fish and wildfire scientists came together to discuss how this winter’s low-snow pack will affect the Dungeness River Valley this summer. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Natural Resources Director Scott Chitwood discussed the potential impacts to the salmon that will be returning this year, including an expected 1.3 million […]
Tightline Adventure, a non-profit sports fishing television outfit, recently visited the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. They took a look at the tribe’s upriver supplementation program as well as their juvenile monitoring efforts. Here are some links talking more about the tribe’s upper river ponds and smolt trapping.
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe partnered with the Washington Department of Ecology in 2014 to clean up Point Julia on Port Gamble Bay. Check out the video to see the work it took to remove thousands of pounds of debris, more than a dozen vessels and car engines, 300 tires, a beached barge and a dilapidated […]
WILKESON – The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is using fish-friendly methods to help protect property they plan to turn into steelhead acclimation ponds that will help save the local run from extinction. “Heavy winter heavy floods from a few years ago washed away almost two acres,” said Blake Smith, enhancement manager for the Puyallup Tribe […]
Joe Peters, harvest management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe, posts up about how tribal chum management works in deep South Sound: While Non-Tribal fleet, recreational and our neighboring Tribes to the north are fishing, the extreme terminal Tribes are relying on chum making it to the streams to spawn (escapement). Squaxin Chum fisheries are […]
The Herald writes about Tulalip’s concern about ocean survival rates and degrading salmon habitat: The ocean survival rates for both hatchery and wild salmon in the Puget Sound region have taken a nosedive the past few years, according to the tribes. Last year was the worst return rate ever for Snohomish River basin Chinook salmon, […]
The inaugural First Stewards symposium, to be held July 17-20 in Washington, D.C. is a national event that examines the impact of climate change on indigenous coastal cultures and explores solutions based on millennia of traditional ecological knowledge. Hundreds of native leaders, witnesses and climate scientists will join policy-makers and non-government organizations for groundbreaking dialogue […]
The Quileute Tribe concluded a decades-long effort to gain additional land to move the tribal school, tribal council buildings and individual tribal members homes out of the tsunami zone with signing of legislation by President Obama that grants the tribe nearly 800 acres of Olympic National Park land. The Indian Country Today Media Network story […]
Representatives of western Washington treaty tribes were present at last week’s event celebrating the Washington Shellfish Initiative. The effort would promote growing shellfish and restoring ecosystems in Washington State. From the Olympian’s coverage of the event: Supporters of the initiative said the shellfish industry raises clams and oysters that filter and improve water quality. They […]
