The EPA today announced nearly $2 million in grants to 19 tribes for “on-the-ground” projects to protect and preserve water quality and salmon habitat in the Puget Sound region. The grants support the Puget Sound Partnership’s 2020 Action Agenda. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in partnership with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission made the […]
Over at the Squaxin Island Tribe natural resource’s blog, they just added some new content on their smolt trapping efforts. From the post: The Squaxin Island Natural Resources (SINR) is currently collecting data to estimate the number of coho salmon smolts outmigrating from Mill, Cranberry, Goldsborough, Schumacher and Sherwood Creeks. These five creeks empty in […]
The Skagit Valley Herald editorialized about the Skagit River System Cooperative’s effort to rebuild a boat launch and restore the beach near the Tesoro Refinery on March Point. The Skagit River System Cooperative is the natural resources arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes. Rehabilitating the beaches of Fidalgo Bay is not just a good […]
From the Tacoma Weekly: Fishermen – tribal, commercial and sports – around the south Puget Sound area could be receiving more bad news if a proposal to close the 90-year-old Voights Creek Hatchery is approved in the state’s final budget later this month. While recent statements from state wildlife officials and Puyallup Tribe officials working […]
From the Smithsonian Magazine (hat-tip to Squaxin Natural Resources blog): Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty feet below, where Parker had spent his morning, the seafloor was […]
From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s natural resources blog: This week the Squaxin Island Tribe Natural Resources (SINR) and Washington State Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) started hauling the first batch of juvenile coho to the South Sound Net Pens (SSNP) located in Peale Passage. SSNP is a co-managed facility by the SINR and WDFW that has […]
University of Washington journalism students, in a science conference blog, describe the tribal ceremony at the close of the Puget Sound Georga Basin Ecosystem Conference
Environmental news site Grist reports on the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, quoting Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby
King 5 came down to Nisqually yesterday and filed this report on the Nisqually Tribe’s habitat restoration efforts: A small tree is struggling for a foothold in the Nisqually River Delta, and it’s not alone. There are thousands of them growing up in protective white pipes, reclaiming the lands occupied by their ancestors more than […]
The Peninsula Daily News reported on the Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam tribes receiving federal funding to make up for poor sockeye runs from British Columbia’s Fraser River. Three North Olympic Peninsula tribes are receiving federal disaster relief funds allocated for tribal and nontribal commercial fishermen to compensate for poor sockeye salmon runs […]
