Kelly Stonum at the Nisqually Valley News reports on the Nisqually winter chum run and the annual event to celebrate habitat restoration in Roy:
Chum salmon didn’t disappoint the public for their premiere appearance at Roy City Park.
Several salmon were spotted at the street crossing, within walking distance from the park during the Roy Salmon Homecoming, Saturday, Jan. 24.
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The Tacoma News Tribune follows up on several stories a few weeks ago on the Nisqually Tribe's logjam project in Eatonville. This project is part of a much larger picture:…
Taking out a rock berm, replacing it with logjams in Eatonville. The Olympian: Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped…
YELM (March 18, 2005) – Volunteer salmon watchers rediscovered a run of late coho salmon that hadn’t been seen in the Nisqually River for more than a decade.
In late January volunteer salmon watchers started seeing dozens of coho salmon in Nisqually River tributaries, much later than normal. “On some of these streams, volunteers have gone out diligently for months and had hardly seen any salmon,” said Jeanette Dorner, salmon recovery manger for the Nisqually Tribe. “We asked them to keep looking for a few more weeks, and all of a sudden they started seeing coho.”