Recommendations from the 24 treaty tribes represented by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission regarding treaty tribal natural resources management in the Pacific Northwest.…
NISQUALLY – Good harvest management by tribal and state salmon co-managers has led to more chinook reaching the spawning grounds on the Nisqually River this year despite fewer returning chinook.
“Overall fewer chinook returned Puget Sound-wide, but because we managed our fisheries the right way, we were able to reach our escapement goal,” said David Troutt, natural resources director for the Nisqually Tribe. Escapement is the number of salmon that are allowed to reach the spawning grounds.
Nisqually River chinook are part of a larger Puget Sound population of chinook that are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act. (more…)
Kenny Braget's voice will always be with us. A cattle rancher and a neighbor of mine in the Nisqually Watershed, Kenny lived the life of a steward. He proved the belief that actions speak louder than words. No one's actions spoke louder than Kenny's. My lifelong friend passed away this summer, but his legacy will live on.
This week the Nisqually Tribe held the "Welcoming the Tides" ceremony to celebrate the completion of their 100-acre estuary restoration. The Olympian: Hundreds of people - from political bigwigs to…
Yesterday the state Department of Health release an advisory on eating blackmouth (resident) chinook. A couple of places covered the tribal angle pretty well. Seattle Times: The biggest impact from…
The Tacoma News Tribune follows up on several stories a few weeks ago on the Nisqually Tribe's logjam project in Eatonville. This project is part of a much larger picture:…
Taking out a rock berm, replacing it with logjams in Eatonville. The Olympian: Two tracked excavators rumbled through the diverted, dry streambed of the Mashel River last week and dropped…
Georgiana Kautz, the Nisqually Tribe's natural resources manager, had a good opinion piece on harvest published in the News Tribune yesterday: Imagine if each year, everyone who harms salmon was…
There were a few stories over the weekend about chum salmon making it back to Muck Creek in the Nisqually River watershed, due to efforts by volunteers and the Nisqually…
The Nisqually Tribe is continuing their work tracking the late Nisqually coho run. King 5: For years biologists worried that a small run of Coho salmon on the Nisqually River…