“At those higher levels, a person could die literally after a couple of bites,” said Joe Schumacker, marine resources scientist for the Quinault Indian Nation. The Hoh, Makah, Quileute and Quinault Indian Nation all harvest mussels as part of their traditional diet.
The Seattle Times led its outdoor sports column on March 2 with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's carcass project. From The Times: Almost 100 years ago the Elwha River on…
Seattle Times: Migrating fish in the Sooes River on the Olympic coast are getting a helping hand from the Makah Tribe. One day late last month in a span of…
HOH RIVER (March 21, 2005) – Plant a tree and it will grow.
It’s not that simple though when the tree is a Sitka spruce planted to reforest Olympic coast timberlands.
Populations of spruce-tip weevil, an insect that causes spruce to grow uncharacteristically bushy and low, exploded in spruce forests planted in the mid -1980s. Infestation was so prevalent, that many private timberland owners stopped replanting spruce -the signature species of temperate rainforests – and a key component of salmon habitat.
FORKS (July 1, 2003) -- In an effort to preserve groundfish species such as blackcod and yellowtail rockfish for sustained harvest off the Olympic coast, treaty tribes and the Washington…