ALDER – Over 100 trees that have fallen into the reservoir behind Alder Dam will be put to use constructing engineered logjams to create salmon habitat on Ohop Creek. “Trees that wash into the lake from the river and get stuck behind the dam need to be removed before they become a nuisance,” said David […]
EATONVILLE (October 27, 2008) – The Nisqually Indian Tribe is helping a local landowner reclaim a stretch of Tanwax Creek for salmon. Tribal technicians, volunteers and school groups are clearing a five-acre infestation of reed canary grass along the creek, allowing coho salmon to access important habitat on James Tucker’s property. The volunteers and school […]
Treaty Indian Fisheries and Salmon Recovery dispels many of the myths about tribal fishing practices and explains why habitat loss and degradation is the single most significant factor contributing to the decline of the salmon resource. This 10-minute video explains salmon migration patterns, how tribal fishing nets are used to selectively harvest healthy salmon runs, […]
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 seven hours, a Chinook helicopter delicately created 18 logjams on a 1.5-mile stretch of the river, reconnecting it with its floodplain and improving habitat by […]
ELDON (June 16, 2003) — Using a small net, Greg Sullivan scoops the remaining salmon from a smolt trap’s holding tank and counts his catch before releasing the juvenile fish back into the river. “That’s the last of them for today,” says the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s natural resources technician, who checks the trap on […]
