From the Dispatch: New logjams in the Mashel River Ð being built this summer by the Nisqually Indian Tribe Ð will provide habitat for fish and help protect property from damaging floods. The series of logjams will help protect riverside property which sustained damage during last winter’s 100-year flood, while also providing vital habitat to […]
The Puyallup Herald features research by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians on salmon productivity in the Puyallup watershed: Scientists with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians are looking at the impact of last winter’s floods on salmon species and results this spring aren’t good. January’s floods along the Puyallup River and its tributaries washed away much […]
From Joe Turner at the News Tribune: Reader points out to me that the no fish hatcheries will close is misleading too. The budget says (on Page 397): “During the 2007-09 biennium, the department shall not make a permanent closure of any hatchery facility currently in operation.” So, reader wonders, “if that means that since […]
Eric De Place at the Sightline Daily Score blog writes an interesting piece about salmon and floods: …when I wrote that the costs of doing nothing about climate change outstrip the costs of fixing the problem, one person wrote asking for hard numbers. How do we know for certain which is more expensive? Maybe it […]
Fewer juvenile wild chinook migrated from the Puyallup River in 2007, likely because winter floods in the winter of 2006 washed away chinook redds – or nests – before the fish had a chance to emerge from the gravel. But, because of good weather this past winter, a record number of pink salmon are leaving […]
“Who comes first? Salmon or the humans?” Minority state house Leader Richard DeBolt asked this important question recently, criticizing salmon protection measures he believes contribute to increased flooding in the region. He’s understandably upset because his community of Chehalis was ravaged by this winter’s floods. Our hearts go out to the thousands of people in […]
The Kitsap Sun did a nice follow up of the effects of this week’s rain on salmon eggs in local creeks. Paul Dorn from the Suquamish Tribe is quoted. “Fisheries biologists say a relatively dry fall in the Puget Sound Region followed by Monday’s severe rainstorm was a double-whammy for migrating salmon. While the storm […]
OLYMPIA (September 21, 2005) — When Katrina swept over the southern U.S., leaving tens of thousands of people homeless in its wake a few weeks ago, tribes across the country swung into gear to help provide whatever relief and support they could to our brothers and sisters in the South. The National Congress of American […]
