Everett Herald

Tribal leader tries to drum up federal funding for water pipeline

The (Everett) Herald has a story today about efforts to build a pipeline to pump 36 million gallons of water each day to the Tulalip Indian Reservation:

Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and Tulalip Tribes Chairman Mel Sheldon were among a group that traveled to the nation’s capital recently in an effort to win financial support for the project, which was part of a 2005 legal settlement that forged a partnership between the two governments.

The pipeline will bring enough water to the 22,000-acre reservation so that residents there will no longer have to rely on the aquifer that lies beneath them, Sheldon said.

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The Herald runs story on elk relocation

The Everett Herald ran a story Sunday about a recent elk relocation from Acme, Whatcom County:

Tribes from around the region want to move about 45 cows, bulls and calves before the state, pressured by complaints from farmers, lets hunters cull the herd.

“The tribes would like to give all these animals a chance,” Stillaguamish Tribe Chairman Shawn Yannity said.

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