PBS recently featured a report on tribal efforts to restore salmon. The report was based on work done during the filming of “Poisoned Waters.” From the Jim Leher News Hour: JIM LEHRER: Next tonight, America’s waterways nearly four decades after passage of the Clean Water Act. Our story comes from special correspondent Hedrick Smith. It […]
The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) has found evidence that beavers living in the tidal marsh are creating prime salmon habitat. The SRSC is the natural resources arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes. The Seattle Times reports: Today, only about 6 percent of the tidal scrub shrub habitat is left in the Skagit River […]
Crews have begun the next phase of construction on the Wiley Slough restoration project, which will return tidal flow to a former estuary in the Skagit River delta. The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) — the natural resources arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes — is working on the project with the Washington Department […]
A University of Washington environmental journalism student blogs about the decline of salmon fisheries and what it means to the Swinomish Tribe.
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 […]
At the expense of the salmon recovery effort, recreational interests have delayed plans to restore crucial chinook habitat in Wiley Slough, in the South Fork of the Skagit River delta. Puget Sound chinook salmon are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act. Restoration work was set to begin last summer to return tidal […]
Chris Dunagan over at Watching Our Water Ways notes the generous nature of the last Salmon Recovery Funding Board grant round: This round of SRF Board funding was interesting in another way. Five different watershed groups in Puget Sound voluntarily pooled a portion of their grant money to further a 700-acre restoration in the Nisqually […]
The Olympian published a brief on the Skokomish Tribe’s restoration effort to remove dikes from the Skokomish River delta, starting August 27. The removal of the structures is expected to improve the tidal flow of the estuary and improve habitat for salmon.
Greg Hood of SRSC is among a group of scientists receiving a grant to devise a computer model of the Skagit River Delta and Skagit and Padilla bays if the oceans rise. The Skagit Valley Herald: Rising ocean levels could change change approaches to restoration of salt marshes and the Skagit River estuary that the […]
Everett Herald: The Tulalip Tribes wants to reverse the tide of dike-building on the Snohomish River delta. The tribe and its federal, state and local partners would like to hear from the public about a plan to breach some of those dikes and reclaim the estuary. Loggers, farmers and industry built the dikes to dry […]
