King 5 on Nisqually estuary restoration
King 5 came down to Nisqually yesterday and filed this report on the Nisqually Tribe’s habitat restoration efforts:
A small tree is struggling for a foothold in the Nisqually River Delta, and it’s not alone.
There are thousands of them growing up in protective white pipes, reclaiming the lands occupied by their ancestors more than a century ago.
“Some of the trees we have here are western red cedar, we have a Sitka spruce, a cottonwood, a red alder,” said James Slape of the Nisqually Fish Commission. (more…)