Tag Archives: Squaxin Island Tribe

Habitat Restoration Manager – Squaxin Island Tribe

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Habitat Restoration Manager Shelton, WA Department: Natural Resources Reports To: Environmental Manager FLSA Status: Exempt Opening Date:  September 6, 2024 Closing Date:  September 20, 2024 SUMMARY: As a professional Restoration Construction Manager, perform professional environmental, fisheries, or related resource biological analysis and coordination, conduct surveys, assist with the coordination of enhancement and management plans, and provide technical consultative services in […]

Skokomish, Squaxin Island and Yakama tribes testify before state Senate

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Representatives from the treaty tribes in western Washington testified February 20 in the Senate committee on Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters. They discussed tribal fisheries management, the economic benefits of tribal fisheries for both tribal and non-tribal communities and the need for more fish. Speaking are Jim Peters (Squaxin Island Tribe), Dave Herrera (Skokomish […]

More education is a key to protecting Oakland Bay

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SHELTON – People living along Oakland Bay don’t think they have anything to do with a significant increase in pollution in the bay, according to a survey by the Sa-Heh-Wa-mish Stewardship Initiative and the Squaxin Island Tribe. “We have direct evidence that the human population around the bay contributes to water pollution, but it’s hard […]

Squaxin Island Tribe clam growth research video

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The Squaxin Island Tribe numbers individual clams on several growth plots around southern Puget Sound to get a good idea of how quickly shellfish grow on various beaches. Here is more information on the clam growth tracking project. Daniel Kuntz, the tribe’s beach manager, explains the process of digging, counting and measuring the clams each […]

Video from the South Sound Science Symposium

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A videographer produced a series of videos of the South Sound Science Symposium earlier this month. The symposium was hosted by the Squaxin Island Tribe and brought together scientiests from around the region to discuss the most recent research regarding the restoration or southern Puget Sound. Here is the presentation by Chris Ellings, a biologist […]

Squaxin Natural Resources blog on smolt trapping

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Over at the Squaxin Island Tribe natural resource’s blog, they just added some new content on their smolt trapping efforts. From the post: The Squaxin Island Natural Resources (SINR) is currently collecting data to estimate the number of coho salmon smolts outmigrating from Mill, Cranberry, Goldsborough, Schumacher and Sherwood Creeks. These five creeks empty in […]

Squaxin Island Tribe Tracking Coho in Sherwood Creek

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ALLYN – A pair of smolt traps is helping the Squaxin Island Tribe get a better picture of natural salmon production in the Sherwood Creek watershed. “The Sherwood watershed is one of the most complicated systems in the tribe’s treaty-reserved fishing area,” said Joe Peters, fisheries management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe. Tribal biologists […]

Squaxin Island Tribe responds to dioxin in Oakland Bay

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From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s blog this morning: Preliminary data released today by the state Department of Ecology has identified dioxin in sediment throughout Oakland Bay. Outside of Shelton Harbor, the dioxin is distributed uniformly with an average concentration of 35 parts per trillion (ppt or pg/g). “At first glance, the distribution pattern suggests the […]