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Seattle Times reporter Lynda Mapes talks to members of the Hoh Tribe about a bill in Congress that would give the Hoh Tribe 37 acres of previously logged lands belonging to Olympic National Park to aid the tribe in their efforts to move out of the flood plain.
KING 5 environmental reporter Gary Chittim reported on the reopening of shellfish beds in Port Susan, thanks to the efforts of the Stillaguamish Tribe.
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe was rewarded this week for its recent restoration work in the Elwha River valley.
The tribe received the Washington-British Columbia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society 2009-2010 Conservation Organization of the Year award at the society’s annual meeting in Nanaimo, British Columbia on March 3.
The Conservation Organization of the Year is awarded to an organization that has significantly contributed to a program or activity…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just announced that more than $1.3 million in Tribal Wildlife Grants will be awarded to tribes in Idaho, Oregon and Washington for projects to benefit fish and wildlife and their habitats.
In western Washington, five tribes are recipients of this award:
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe – $57,312 for restoration of the Dungeness Elk Herd in the Dungeness River Valley
Lower…
The Olympian has a story this morning on the Squaxin Island Tribe’s effort to protect salmon in Johns Creek:
A water use dispute in Mason County is headed for the desk of Gov. Chris Gregoire.
The Squaxin Island Tribe has asked the governor to order the state Department of Ecology to halt new well-drilling activity in the Johns Creek watershed near Shelton because withdrawals
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The Squaxin Island Tribe invited visitors out to see the processing the remains of a dead Bryde’s whale last week. Both King 5 and the Seattle Times were on hand.
From the Seattle Times:
Here on this inlet in far South Sound, a visitor recently arrived from distant waters, and the Squaxin Island tribe did what their ancestors
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The Seattle Times has a column about the alarming arrival of a strain of fish virus in state-reared steelhead in the Bogachiel River Hatchery and the Makah Tribe’s Hoko River Hatchery helping out with replacing some of the steelhead that had to be eliminated.
The US Army has a post up today about their close relationship with the Nisqually Indian Tribe and how it has resulted in increased habitat for chum salmon. The article includes a great photo gallery of a recent community event to celebrate the chum and community habitat restoration efforts.
From the article:
Laboring to continue upstream, a lone chum salmon spent its last moments of
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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 between Bellingham Bay and Lummi Bay.
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians produces two major reports on salmon populations every year. One covers how many juvenile fish leave the system every year (or salmon production), the other covers how many migrate back from the ocean to spawn.
Here is the “Puyallup River Juvenile Salmonid Production Assessment Project 2009″ report:
