Position: Fish Passage Biologist I Supervisor: Habitat Program Manager (Quileute Natural Resources) Location: La Push, Washington Work Info: Full Time: 40 Hrs/Week (M-F) Salary: DOQ/E ($55,000 – $70,000) POSITION SUMMARY: The Fish Passage Biologist will work in the Habitat Program within Quileute Natural Resources. This position requires previous experience and knowledge of salmonid fish passage […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee visited the Hoh, Quileute and Makah tribes Friday and heard a number of environmental concerns. See the article in the Peninsula Daily News.
Olympic Peninsula treaty tribes are helping monitor fishers that have been reintroduced to Olympic National Park. Starting this summer, and for the next several years, the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Makah and Quileute tribes will be collecting hair samples and photos of the small mammals. Fishers are members of the […]
If you aren’t in the mood, don’t weave. It shows up in the work.” That’s one of the many things Quileute tribal member Cathy Salazar has learned after 16 years of basket weaving. “The weave will get too tight or sloppy if you aren’t in the right frame of mind,” said Salazar. Despite years of […]
Gaspar Ramos, 16, strides confidently to the edge of the Quillayute River and drops a hydrolab datasonde that measures water quality parameters into the water. The Makah tribal member has worked with the water quality equipment enough to look like he has been doing it for years. Ramos might one day have a job just […]
The premiere of the documentary, Back to the River, was held at the Seattle Aquarium Feb. 2. The movie details the story of the treaty rights struggle from the pre-Boldt era to tribal and state co-management. The movie includes the voices and personal accounts of tribal fishers, leaders and others active in the treaty fishing […]
On Washington’s rugged Pacific coast, the Quinault Indian Nation has depended on salmon for thousands of years. But the glaciers that feed the Quinault and Queets Rivers and sustain these salmon populations are in retreat because of climate change, threatening the very survival of the salmon. In Alaska, native villages are pulling up stakes and […]
The inaugural First Stewards symposium, to be held July 17-20 in Washington, D.C. is a national event that examines the impact of climate change on indigenous coastal cultures and explores solutions based on millennia of traditional ecological knowledge. Hundreds of native leaders, witnesses and climate scientists will join policy-makers and non-government organizations for groundbreaking dialogue […]
The Quileute Tribe concluded a decades-long effort to gain additional land to move the tribal school, tribal council buildings and individual tribal members homes out of the tsunami zone with signing of legislation by President Obama that grants the tribe nearly 800 acres of Olympic National Park land. The Indian Country Today Media Network story […]
The Quileute Tribe is awaiting word on legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton to finalize a land acquisition detailed in a Seattle Times story here. Meanwhile, President Obama signed legislation just before Christmas approving the acquisition of 37 acres for the Hoh Tribe to move out of the tsunami zone and provide continuity […]
