The Makah Tribe will celebrate the opening of their new $13.8 million dock at 11 a.m., Oct. 10 with a blessing and ribbon cutting even as they prepare for phase two of the facility. The new 120-foot long, two-lane dock has a state-of-the-art ice machine capable of holding 110 tons of ice and has five […]
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 treed cougar flattens his ears as the howls of professional hunting dogs mix with the shouts of Makah tribal wildlife biologists in a snowy forest in the hook Game Management Unit near Neah Bay. A tranquilizer dart finds its mark and the adult male falls with a whump into a tarp rigged as a […]
The tribe is conducting several research projects to better understand the numbers of elk calves and black-tail deer fawns born each year and how many of them survive to maturity.“Without this kind of specific knowledge, it can be easy to over-estimate the expected rate of increase in a population and make mistakes in harvest management […]
“There’s no good season for an oil spill,” said Chad Bowechop, marine manager for the Makah Tribe’s Office of Marine Affairs.
The Peninsula Daily News posted a story about an oil skimmer joining an oil spill rescue tug on the Makah reservation in Neah Bay. The oil skimmer Arctic Tern heas begun calling Neah Bay its homeport as the Makah reservation becomes a staging area for spill response on Washington’s outer coast. Previously moored at the […]
It happened again Dec. 3: Another near grounding of a cargo ship off the Washington coast at our home in Neah Bay. Forty-foot seas powered by 90 mph winds knocked out the main steering on the 720-foot Mattson Kauai near the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Waves shattered all of the windows […]
The Seattle Times today reports on the culvert case ruling and the challenges of replacing fish-blocking culverts: More than 1,676 culverts from Neah Bay to Walla Walla block more than 2,377 miles of potential salmon habitat. And those are just the culverts owned by the state Department of Transportation. Pipes owned and maintained by other […]
NEAH BAY (December 23, 2003) Tribal and federal marine biologists gained valuable information about the endangered sei whale as a result of a necropsy (animal autopsy) that was performed on a carcass towed to Neah Bay in September. The 45-foot-6-inch whale washed ashore west of Port Angeles in mid-September and was towed to Neah Bay […]
NEAH BAY (September 16, 2003) The rescue tugboat Barbara Foss began its first day of duty of the 2003-2004 winter season today. The Neah Bay- based tug received a rousing send-off in Seattle Monday from Makah tribal council members, state legislators and other guests. Unlike past years, the tug’s funding is firm for the next […]
