The Everett Herald on the Stillaguamish Tribe's south fork Stilluagmish chinook broodstock program: Stillaguamish tribal biologists are planning DNA tests for each fingerling to determine whether they are male or…
The Daily Herald of Everett reports on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s efforts to capture juvenile chinook and raise them to maturity for use as hatchery broodstock:
There was a time when a net cast in the south fork of the Stillaguamish River would bring in a variety of fish.
These days, nets often pull up little more than debris. (more…)
TULALIP – Stormwater runoff from the parking lots and playfield at Tulalip Elementary runs directly into Tulalip Bay. Traveling through conventional drains and pipes, at times seeping over the sidewalk onto Totem Beach Road, the water potentially picks up and carries pollutants.
At the nearby Boys and Girls Club, the lack of drainage results in a parking lot pond when it rains.
As an alternative to conventional stormwater detention methods, the Tulalip Tribes are turning to low impact development (LID) to improve water quality and fix several drainage problems. The tribes’ Natural Resources Department is engineering wetlands to absorb stormwater and filter out pollutants before it drains into the bay. (more…)
LUMMI NATION – The Lummi Nation has entered into a partnership with Whatcom County and the Whatcom Land Trust to re-align a portion of a county road that runs past the tribe’s Skookum Creek Hatchery. This section of the road segment serves primarily as access to the hatchery and to a system of logging roads.
Moving the road off the bank of the South Fork of the Nooksack River will allow the tribe to restore habitat to its natural condition, by replanting native vegetation in the riparian area and building logjams for instream cover and complexity. The project ranked first for restoration benefit in a habitat assessment of the upper South Fork conducted by the tribe’s Natural Resources department in 2007. (more…)
The Seattle Times has a story about the Tulalip Tribes change to an earlier returning hatchery chinook broodstock:
Spring 2007 will be known as a time when Tulalip fishermen were pulling chinook salmon out of the bay — and selling them for $6 a pound.
The (Everett) Herald: TULALIP - Tens of thousands of acres of Western Washington wilderness is open to American Indian hunters, thanks to a new agreement between the Tulalip Tribes and…
Bellingham Herald: With only 210 adult chinook salmon returning to the north and middle forks, and 120 returning to the south fork to spawn in 2005, fish managers are grappling…