Seattle Times: Puyallup Tribe aids hatchery chinook
From the Seattle Times: The Puyallup Tribe is working on some innovative ways to boost fisheries on hatchery chinook destined for the Lower Puyallup River, while still raising efforts to…
Times features tribal reliance on natural resources
The Seattle Times published a story focusing on the Skokomish Tribe and how the health of Hood Canal is affecting the tribe's way of life... HOOD CANAL — It's a…
Oil spill settlement makes regional newspapers
Regional newspapers announce the Suquamish Tribe's settlement with Foss Maritime over the December 2003 oil spill: Seattle Times: More than three years after nearly 5,000 gallons of oil fouled pristine…
Seattle Times notes Tulalip’s tidal power site
The Seattle Times has an article mentioning Daryl Williams' tidal power Web site. Among the questions to be addressed are environmental issues, mainly how tidal-power projects will affect marine mammal…
Papers cover Sequim elk update
The Seattle Times and the Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader both posted the latest update on what the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the state of Washington have proposed to do with the Sequim Elk herd. From the Seattle Times:
Instead of moving a herd of elk that has been hemmed in by development in Sequim, wildlife managers have decided to spend about $1 million to erect fences to keep the animals out of highways and farms.
Seattle Times: Dam is gone, salmon are back
Seattle Times: For more than a century, salmon followed Goldsborough Creek as it passed through the grounds of a sawmill, into the middle of Shelton and toward the woods beyond…
Blackmouth health advisory coverage
Yesterday the state Department of Health release an advisory on eating blackmouth (resident) chinook. A couple of places covered the tribal angle pretty well. Seattle Times: The biggest impact from…
Seattle Times: Elwha Tribe give steelhead a helping hand
Seattle Times: Native steelhead in the Elwha River are being closely monitored to ensure they stay out of harm's way when two fish-blocking dams are torn down in 2009. In…
Nice profile on Stan Jones (Tulalip Tribes) in the Seattle Times
Especially this part that focusses on Jones' efforts to revive their First Salmon Ceremony and habitat restoration: The tribal chairman also is credited with helping to revive Tulalip ceremonies and…
Seattle Times: Lake Ozette Sockeye
Seattle Times: While Lake Washington sockeye garner most of the attention, another sockeye run in the Olympic Peninsula is trying to make a comeback. Young sockeye from Lake Ozette are…