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. Download PDF file: [download#2] “Among the many responsibilities Ken will bear as our next Secretary of the Interior is helping ensure that we finally live […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 environmental volunteers – braved a chilly afternoon to watch the tide roll in Tuesday. But it was no ordinary tide. Nisqually tribe members danced, drummed […]
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 advisory could be among Puget Sound tribes. While wild chinook are protected under the Endangered Species Act, tribes catch tens of thousands of hatchery […]
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: But this is just the start. The tribe and enhancement group have big dreams, $30 million dreams. The capital projects they want to accomplish in […]
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 40-foot trees and refrigerator-size boulders into a massive, muddy hole. Another disaster for a river that’s taken a lot of punches during the past 100 […]
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 required to talk about the effects of their actions – all the developers, the water withdrawers and the polluters sitting together counting how many fish […]
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 Tribe. Tacoma News Tribune: Homecoming kings and queens in the City of Roy have been kind of finicky in recent years. They’ve been showing up […]
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 had gone extinct. Well, guess who’s back! Toboton Creek teems with salmon every fall, but by the time the winter sun arrives low in the […]
