The Northwest Indian College is opening a laboratory classroom on its Port Gamble S'Klallam Reservation campus. The lab will be available to students and employees of the Port Gamble S'Klallam…
The Lummi Nation is surveying every species living in more than 7,000 acres of tidelands on the tribe’s reservation.
The Lummi Intertidal Baseline Inventory (LIBI), funded by the energy company BP, will be crucial in the event of a catastrophic oil spill from activities associated with four nearby oil refineries: BP and ConocoPhillips in Ferndale, and Tesoro and Shell at Anacortes.
“We want to know what’s living here now, so if there is a spill, we will know the extent of the damage,” said Merle Jefferson, Lummi Natural Resources director. “After the Exxon-Valdez spill, they had no pre-disaster data to compare it to.” (more…)
Northwest Indian College will be graduating its first students with four-year bachelor’s degrees this spring.
Those first degrees will be in native environmental sciences, and the graduates will have expertise that combines traditional Native American knowledge of the natural world with conventional environmental science. (more…)
Bellingham Herald: LUMMI RESERVATION — Northwest Indian College is joining the ranks of Whatcom County’s four-year-degree colleges, and that’s just the beginning of changes students will see next school year.…