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.
A couple of officials from the Nisqually Indian Tribe spoke at yesterday’s celebration of the restoration of the Nisqually River estuary.
First, Chair Cynthia Iyall:
Natural resources director David Troutt:
Here are some links on the overall restoration project:
Nisqually Delta Restoration
Turning the tide after 100 years: restoring the Nisqually Delta
The Olympian: Water flows…
The Squaxin Island Tribe recently participated in the recent beach cleanup organized by shellfish growers.
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The Upper Skagit Tribe is using an unusual mechanized tree-planting device to plant more than 50,000 trees in the Hansen Creek floodplain.
The tribe is working with WildLands and S & K Environmental Restoration, a division of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, which developed the rotary stinger to plant trees more efficiently than traditional methods.
View a demonstration of the rotary…
The Tacoma News Tribune covered the massive run of pink salmon on the White River this year. The Puyallup Tribe of Indians earlier pointed to these sorts of runs as benefiting weaker fish stocks in the river system, most namely, bull trout and steelhead.
The tribe monitors both species in watershed and is pointing to increased numbers of both, mostly likely because of a…
The Squaxin Island Tribe keeps a close eye on its coho fishery, sampling salmon after they are caught in South Sound waters.
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Following record high temperatures this summer across western Washington, Tulalip tribal biologists noticed that chinook salmon weren’t making it all the way to Wallace River, a tributary to the Skykomish River.
The hot, dry weather likely contributed to poor returns in a couple of ways. Water temperatures were too warm and a lack of rainfall reduced water levels and flow.
The Tulalip Tribes and the…
Larry Echohawk, assistant Secretary of the Interior and head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, spoke during a visit to the Suquamish Tribe earlier this month.
The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) celebrated the success of two major estuary restoration projects this week.
Returning tidal flow to former estuaries is an important step toward restoring salmon habitat. Puget Sound chinook salmon are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act.
On Wednesday, Aug. 19, an excavator made the final berm cut to allow full tidal flow to 200 acres of…
Nearly 100 canoes and thousands of people descended upon the Suquamish Tribe’s Port Madison Reservation August 3-8 for the annual Tribal Canoe Journey.
For two weeks, canoe families from all over western Washington and British Columbia traveled on their ancestral highways, arriving on the shores of Suquamish Aug. 3 for another week of celebration of their culture. The purpose of the journey is to practice their…
