Tag Archives: Dungeness River

Sequim Gazette: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe concerned about water supply for salmon

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Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe natural resources director Scott Chitwood spoke with the Sequim Gazette recently about the tribe’s concern for water supply and salmon this summer following 2014-15’s mild winter and low snowpack in the Olympic Mountains. “We’re thinking about surface flows,” Scott Chitwood, natural resources director for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, said. “What influences groundwater influences surface […]

PDN: Heavy rains damage property, shift Dungeness River

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The Peninsula Daily News reported how the recent heavy rains have damaged Sequim’s Railroad Bridge at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, of which the Jamestown Tribe is the property owner. The winter storms, going back to December, also have significantly shifted the river’s main channel. While part of the bridge’s western trestle was damaged by heavy river […]

Jamestown S’Klallam Gathering Steelhead DNA for Database

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The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe wants to know which age class of steelhead is surviving best within the Dungeness River watershed. While checking smolt traps and conducting spawning ground surveys this spring, the tribe took tail and scale samples from 500 juvenile steelhead in five creeks between Sequim and Port Angeles: Seibert, McDonald, Matriotti, Bell and […]

Comments Sought on Dungeness River Flood Plan

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The Peninsula Daily News posted an article calling for comments for the Dungeness River Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan. The plan offers recommendations for land uses in the flood-prone areas near the lower Dungeness River. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Pam Edens and Byron Rot contributed significantly to the plan. Written comment can be submitted until 4:30 […]

Jamestown S’Klallam Fighting Butterfly Bush

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The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has worked too hard to let an innocent-looking lilac-scented shrub take over its restoration efforts of the Dungeness River. Much like knotweed, Scotch broom and English ivy, the butterfly bush, also known as Buddleia, has become an invasive species in recent years. (more…)

Northwest Fishery Resource Bulletin

The Northwest Fishery Resource Bulletin presents the results of investigations carried out by the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, Western Washington Treaty Tribes, and/or the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission that are deemed of sufficient interest to be made available to the scientific community and the public. The Project Report Series is designed to report […]