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…
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.…
The Skagit Valley Herald has a story about the Skagit River System Cooperative’s study of saltwater intrusion on farms and the potential for growing crops that can be used in biodiesel production:
First, it’s a long-term study of saltwater intrusion on the crops and ways farmers can avoid it without compromising fish habitat.
Second, it’s a test to explore a crop that could figure in the local economy — particularly in the realm of growing biodiesel usage in Skagit County.
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.
OLYMPIA, WA (January 26, 2006) -- Today we know it as Puget Sound. For thousands of years, my ancestors have known it as the Wulge, or the Salish Sea. Whatever you call it, this magnificent estuary that connects us with the great ocean beyond is critical to your survival. It doesn't matter whether you fish or not. It doesn't matter what your income or education levels are. It doesn't matter what your ethnic origin is, what your religion is, or even your political party. Whoever you are, whatever you do, your health and well-being—as well as that of your children—are directly connected with the health of the Puget Sound, its connecting rivers, groundwater and ocean. Frankly, that health is not so good. That's not news to us tribal members. The locust-like swarms of Europeans and others who have migrated here over the past few centuries have been bent on over-exploiting virtually every resource the Northwest has to offer, and degrading land, water and sky in the process. Even the mighty Orca has now been listed on the Endangered Species List, due largely to the decline in the health of the water it lives in. All of these are indicators that your health and well-being are in trouble.