Indian Country Today reports on the Coast Salish Gathering: TULALIP, Wash. – ”Enough talk, it’s time for action.” Billy Frank Jr., chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, summed up the consensus at the second day of the Coast Salish Gathering at the Tulalip Tribes Feb. 27 – 29. ”We are the Indian people, the […]
The (Everett) Herald reported on plans for tribal canoes to measure water quality throughout the region during the Canoe Journey this summer: Canoes traveling on five or six of the major journey routes on their way to Cowichan, B.C., will take along water quality testing systems. Using the most modern GPS technology and water probes, […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is the first tribe in the nation to receive EPA certification for its watershed-based plan. It focuses on goals to restore and protect water quality within the Dungeness watershed. Parts of the watershed are inundated with low dissolved oxygen levels, fecal coliform contamination, loss […]
KING 5 TV was on site at Twanoh State Park near Belfair Tuesday, featuring this story on the clean up efforts of Hood Canal by the Skokomish Tribe and state and federal agencies, including the addition of a new wastewater treatment system to help with the water quality.
The Seattle Times printed a story about the Skokomish Tribe and Washington State Parks swapping acreage near the Skokomish reservation. Plans for the land include restoration of tidelands and construction of a sewer system, which will help improve water quality for the area. The tribe will also provide public access to tidelands while retaining shellfishing […]
The Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes joined state and federal groups in requesting more money to pay for the repair and maintenance of deteriorating Forest Service roads that are degrading water quality and harming salmon habitat. Pat Stevenson of Stillaguamish and Abby Hook of Tulalip are both featured in the King 5 story.
King 5: One of the nation’s richest shell fish bays is in trouble. Oakland Bay near Shelton produces 60 percent of the entire nation’s Manila clams. But the water quality in parts of the bay barely passes state health standards because of the levels of fecal coliform, a form of bacteria found in human and […]
The Olympian has a great story this morning on the Skokomish Tribe’s efforts to help solve the low-oxygen problem in Hood Canal. The Olympian: A fish carcass-recycling program is an integral part of the Skokomish tribe’s chum salmon fishery this fall for a second year in a row. … But with dissolved oxygen levels at […]
NEAH BAY (July 1, 2003) — Gwen Swan knows the link between water quality and the dinner table better than most. The Makah tribal member eats seafood nearly every day. She is also a fisheries technician whose duties include harvesting mussels and clams in and around Neah Bay to be tested for biotoxins such as […]
