The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe vocalized support during a recent Dungeness River Management Team meeting, where local company Taylor Shellfish Farms discussed its proposal to develop a 30-acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. From The Sequim Gazette: Historically Dungeness Bay was used for shellfish aquaculture by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, but because of frequent closures by the Washington […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe worked with a local landowner in Sequim, WA to remove a 600-foot long roadway and two culverts and replace them with a bridge in Washington Harbor. The roadway and culverts were blocking tidal flow from flooding 37 acres of an estuary that was prime habitat for salmon. The results of the […]
Indian Country Today Media Network posted a story about eight tribes, two from within Western Washington, that are ahead of the curve when it comes to adapting to climate change. The Swinomish Tribe and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe were the two highlighted from the Pacific Northwest. Since passing a climate change proclamation in 2007, the Swinomish […]
Due to its popularity with harvesters and shellfish lovers, scientists are learning more about geoduck clams found in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. During the past two years, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) have been collecting age and genetic data from these particular […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe planted more than 10,000 Olympia oyster seeds this summer to enhance an acre of tideland near the tribe’s headquarters on Sequim Bay. “The tidelands in front of the tribal center have small patches of mature and juvenile Olympia oysters so there is successful reproduction occurring, meaning there is probably good habitat,” […]
The Kitsap Sun has reported that the U.S. Navy will pay $9 million to Hood Canal tribes as part of a mitigation agreement for natural resources impacted by the construction of the Navy’s explosives handling wharf at Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor. The Skokomish, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam and Lower Elwha Klallam tribes will use […]
“The management measures are an inter-tribal and state milestone,” said Rob McCoy, wildlife division manager for the Makah Tribe. “Everyone worked together to do something to protect the population for the future. “Harvest is something we can control. We don’t have the capability to accomplish predator control at this time and we can’t control the […]
[display_podcast] PORT ANGELES (October 16, 2008) – There was a sense of urgency when tribal, state and federal biologists recently snorkeled for 5,000 freshwater mussels along the bottom of a 300-foot-long shallow side channel of the Elwha River. A dredge was slated the next day to dig up the side channel as part of construction […]
SEQUIM (October 26, 2007) – Cleaning up water pollution could be as easy as growing oyster mushrooms in your backyard. In a partnership the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, the Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratories has cultivated fungus and native plants along a local stream to see whether it will help prevent the movement of bacteria from […]
The waters of Sequim Bay seem clean, with visibility for several feet within the nearshore. But biotoxins lurk within the waters, plaguing the Strait of Juan de Fuca each summer and fall. The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is concerned about these naturally occurring toxins that show up regularly in shellfish tissues following algae blooms. The toxins […]
