Video: Coming Back – Restoring the Skokomish Watershed
Members of the Skokomish Watershed Action Team, which includes the Skokomish Tribe, have been collaborating for a decade on how to best restore the Skokomish watershed, located at the southern…
Health of Port Susan Bay at risk
The (Everett) Heraldreports: Two local American Indian tribes want to add an extra layer of protection for the Western sandpipers, snow geese, short-eared owls, Chinook salmon and other species that…
Science is hitching a ride on tribal canoe journey
The (Everett) Herald reported on plans for tribal canoes to measure water quality throughout the region during the Canoe Journey this summer: Canoes traveling on five or six of the…
Biologists use high-tech equipment to spy on Skagit River chum
Tribes are working with Seattle City Light to study Skagit River chum. The P-I reports:
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — On the Skagit River, biologists netted a 3-foot chum salmon with stripes the color of a bad bruise and vampire teeth just beginning to show.
The fish will be dead within a month. But during the next few weeks, they’ll learn more than they have in the past 30 years about how this wild fish behaves.
SVH: Wiley Slough restoration moving forward
The Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) had a story yesterday about plans to restore tidal flooding to Wiley Slough. The project is a partnership between Skagit River System Cooperative and…
Listen to the PI editorial board with Billy Frank Jr., rest of Puget Sound Partnership
The Seattle PI posted a podcast of their editorial board meeting with members of the Puget Sound Partnership. Give it a listen (mp3 file).
Another Puget Sound Partnership article
From the Olympian: Puget Sound's web of life is in trouble, with 40 marine invertebrate, fish, bird and mammal species listed as threatened or endangered on state and federal lists,…
Tulalip Tribes looking at eelgrass
Everett Herald: Spending millions of dollars to save salmon in Snohomish County rivers and streams is wasted if the fish die in Possession Sound and Port Susan before they make…