The Nature Conservancy is adding to the existing conservation efforts by the Hoh River Trust with the purchase that closed March 30 of the 3,184 acres. The deal continues the goal of creating a 32-mile conservation corridor along the Hoh River extending from Olympic National Park toward the sea that protects important habitat for salmon […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee visited the Hoh, Quileute and Makah tribes Friday and heard a number of environmental concerns. See the article in the Peninsula Daily News.
The premiere of the documentary, Back to the River, was held at the Seattle Aquarium Feb. 2. The movie details the story of the treaty rights struggle from the pre-Boldt era to tribal and state co-management. The movie includes the voices and personal accounts of tribal fishers, leaders and others active in the treaty fishing […]
On Washington’s rugged Pacific coast, the Quinault Indian Nation has depended on salmon for thousands of years. But the glaciers that feed the Quinault and Queets Rivers and sustain these salmon populations are in retreat because of climate change, threatening the very survival of the salmon. In Alaska, native villages are pulling up stakes and […]
The inaugural First Stewards symposium, to be held July 17-20 in Washington, D.C. is a national event that examines the impact of climate change on indigenous coastal cultures and explores solutions based on millennia of traditional ecological knowledge. Hundreds of native leaders, witnesses and climate scientists will join policy-makers and non-government organizations for groundbreaking dialogue […]
An empty plastic kerosene can with Japanese writing on it washed onto Point Grenville in March, possibly some of the first debris to reach the Olympic Coast following Japan’s catastrophic tsunami in 2011. Tribal, local, state and federal agencies are preparing for the possibility that tons more debris may wash ashore. However, little wreckage has […]
The Peninsula Daily News has a column regarding the upcoming razor clam harvest for Kalaloch Beach.
“Indigenous peoples, including American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Hawaiian Natives are among the most vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change in the world,” said Fawn Sharp, Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) president, as part of testimony to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in 2009.
The Quileute Tribe is awaiting word on legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton to finalize a land acquisition detailed in a Seattle Times story here. Meanwhile, President Obama signed legislation just before Christmas approving the acquisition of 37 acres for the Hoh Tribe to move out of the tsunami zone and provide continuity […]
“When we get these high levels of biotoxin in mussels, we’re also concerned about its ability to persist in some of these bays and inlets where sampling may not be occurring,” said Schumacker. “For Quinault, it will be an ongoing health issue as well as a cultural issue when it affects harvest of these important […]
