ALLYN – A pair of smolt traps is helping the Squaxin Island Tribe get a better picture of natural salmon production in the Sherwood Creek watershed. “The Sherwood watershed is one of the most complicated systems in the tribe’s treaty-reserved fishing area,” said Joe Peters, fisheries management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe. Tribal biologists […]
OLYMPIA, WA (March 7, 2008) — So-called exempt wells could potentially run our rivers dry. Our rivers are connected to the ground waters and what affects one affects the other. Under state law, property owners can tap up to 5,000 gallons of groundwater every day and be exempted from getting a permit. There are no […]
The Olympian ran a story this morning on the Squaxin Island Tribe’s request to protect salmon in the Johns Creek watershed: The Squaxin Island tribe, concerned about salmon in the Johns Creek watershed near Shelton, has asked the state to halt drilling of new wells in the area. The tribe filed a petition with the […]
LACEY (July 12, 2005) – While the drought threat has lessened this summer, for fish the problem is getting worse every year because of development-caused low stream flows. “Low stream flows from little rain is no different to fish than low flows caused by development,” said Jeff Dickison, assistant natural resources director for the Squaxin […]
PORT ANGELES (December 7, 2004) – The Salt Creek Watershed has about 50 miles of fish habitat, but half of it is inaccessible to salmon and trout, according to a recently completed assessment of the area. The study, developed by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition, will be presented at […]
SALT CREEK (July 30, 2003) – In the late 1940s, low water levels in Salt Creek left juvenile coho salmon marooned along a stretch of the stream running through John McFall’s property. Using buckets and a wheelbarrow, McFall scooped up the small salmon and transferred them to a nearby tributary flowing with water. “Three years […]
