The award-winning Northwest Indian News produced a great piece about the removal of the Elwha River dams and the construction of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s new hatchery. This report is from the Northwest Indian News Episode #44. (more…)
The Kitsap Sun did a follow up to last year's logjam project on the South Fork of the Skokomish River, where logjams were installed within a one-mile reach of the…
The Skokomish Tribe and U.S. Forest Service collaborated this fall to plant native trees and shrubs on 30 acres of previously pre-commercially thinned stands in the South Fork of the Skokomish River to improve elk habitat in the Olympic National Forest.
Plants included red elderberry and snowberry bushes and willow and red osier dogwood trees. During the fall of 2009, cuttings of the four species were obtained from the watershed and the plants have been growing for the last year with Sound Native Plants of Olympia, Wash. (more…)
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe has been preparing a one-mile section of a dike within the lower Dungeness River for a major setback, preparing to open up the historic floodplains to…
Habitat in a 1-mile stretch of the Skokomish River that has been degrading since the 1950s is getting a healthy boost with more than 2,000 logs and hundreds of native…
The Kitsap Sun did a brief update on some of the big restoration projects that will be taking place within the Skokomish watershed this summer, mainly focusing on habitat along the South Fork and mouth of the river.
From the article: (more…)
Leaders, scientists, policy analysts and legal staff of the Coast Salish Nations will gather April 26-27 to strengthen approaches, relationships and discuss potential issues of the environmental impacts of climate…
The Lummi Youth Academy joined a Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association work party to plant trees along Smuggler's Slough as part of a Lummi Nation habitat project to restore fish passage…
Restoring native vegetation along the North Fork Nooksack River, the Lummi Nation faces an unlikely adversary: nature.
The tribe has planted a streamside buffer near Bells Creek, where invasive knotweed, elk and beavers threaten the survival of the freshly planted trees.
Last year, Lummi Natural Resources placed large pieces of wood in Bells Creek to create protected pools for spawning coho salmon, steelhead and bull trout. A history of removing wood and straightening the channel for flood control had left the creek devoid of quality salmon habitat.
The next step was to plant trees in the 2-acre buffer along the creek near its confluence with the North Fork Nooksack River and within 17 acres of existing hardwood stands nearby. Whatcom Land Trust owns the property. (more…)
The EPA today announced nearly $2 million in grants to 19 tribes for "on-the-ground" projects to protect and preserve water quality and salmon habitat in the Puget Sound region. The…