Tag Archives: Melting Glaciers

Coastal Tribes Convene to Tackle Climate Change

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 […]

Scientists receive $900,000 federal grant

Greg Hood of SRSC is among a group of scientists receiving a grant to devise a computer model of the Skagit River Delta and Skagit and Padilla bays if the oceans rise. The Skagit Valley Herald: Rising ocean levels could change change approaches to restoration of salt marshes and the Skagit River estuary that the […]