Repair work on Voights Creek getting underway
Tom Davis, legislative liaison with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, has a piece in the Orting News about the initial work to repair Voights Creek hatchery on the…
Tribes receive nearly $2 million for Puget Sound projects
The EPA today announced nearly $2 million in grants to 19 tribes for "on-the-ground" projects to protect and preserve water quality and salmon habitat in the Puget Sound region. The…
Tribe, Coalition Working With Landowners To Survey Salt Creek Watershed
SALT CREEK (July 30, 2003) – In the late 1940s, low water levels in Salt Creek left juvenile coho salmon marooned along a stretch of the stream running through John McFall’s property. Using buckets and a wheelbarrow, McFall scooped up the small salmon and transferred them to a nearby tributary flowing with water.
“Three years later, I started seeing salmon return to the tributary where I placed those fish,” said McFall, whose family has owned and worked land in the Salt Creek watershed for about a century. “To this day, I can take you up there around Thanksgiving time and show you spawning salmon.”
Inmates Help Stillaguamish Tribe Improve Coho Habitat
STANWOOD (Feb. 10, 2003) -- The Stillaguamish Tribe and inmates from Indian Ridge Correctional Facility are teaming up to save coho salmon in a tributary of Pilchuck Creek. To allow…
Moving Upstream, Just Like A Salmon
FORKS (Aug. 6, 2002) -- A cloud of mosquitoes follows Gene Gaddis and his crew of two as they scramble over a fallen tree in a small tributary of the…
Stream Walkers: Hoh Tribal Staff Take Annual Tally Of Spawning Salmon
HOH (June 24, 2002) -- One of the most productive coho streams in the Hoh River system runs next to one of the most popular hiking trails in the world.…