The Bellingham Herald: An ongoing effort to improve salmon habitat in the lower Nooksack floodplain received another round of federal funding, the state Department of Ecology announced recently. Phase 3…
The Lummi Youth Academy joined a Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association work party to plant trees along Smuggler's Slough as part of a Lummi Nation habitat project to restore fish passage…
The state Department of Ecology is contributing part of a National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Program grant to the Lummi Nation's project to restore fish passage between Bellingham Bay and Lummi…
A combination of Lummi Nation projects not only will repair past destruction of more than 2,000 acres of salmon and wildlife habitat, but also will help build homes for tribal members.
The Lummi Natural Resources Department is reconnecting tidal channels and restoring wetlands to provide essential rearing habitat for juvenile salmon along Smuggler’s Slough. In a separate but related project, Lummi is creating the first tribal wetland and habitat mitigation bank in the country. The wetland and habitat mitigation bank will generate credits to offset any unavoidable impacts of development elsewhere, including homes built on tribal members’ land assignments and Lummi Nation economic development projects. (more…)