Last week, we hosted a work shop on ocean acidification and how it will impact regional natural resources. We recorded a good portion of the workshop and are in the process of posting the results.

Some of this material has already been posted to our blog.

Here are a series of videos and presentations from the day. The presentations will all eventually have audio files associated…

Today, there is a workshop going on regarding ocean acidification and how it might impact treaty harvest and natural resources management. Billy Frank Jr., the chair of the NWIFC, gave a short welcome talk.

The workshop is going on right now and we’re recording it, so we’ll be posting more sessions later.

For more information, the Seattle Times had a great article on the impacts…

Yesterday at the Arcadia boat launch near Shelton, the Squaxin Island Tribe held their annual First Salmon Ceremony. The public event marks the beginning of the salmon fishing season for the tribe and honors the salmon that are central to the tribe’s culture.

Here is a photo gallery of the event.

Below the jump is a five minute movie featuring food preparations for the event.

In June 2010, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission bought Kiket Island to co-manage as a state park. On July 30, 2010, representatives from the tribe and state gathered for a dedication ceremony.

Read the story here, and see Billy Frank Jr.’s column here.

You can watch a video of the celebration after the jump:

Lummi Nation master carver Felix Solomon has been studying traditional canoes for several years. When a 300-year-old cedar tree, buried for the last 100 years, was uncovered in the Stillaguamish watershed, the Stillaguamish Tribe asked him to carve a shovel-nose river canoe for them.

During the 6-month, 6-day process, Solomon taught Stillaguamish tribal members, including Chairman Shawn Yanity and assistant fisheries manager Jeff Tatro, the…

The Stillaguamish Tribe celebrated its First Salmon Ceremony on Saturday. A highlight of the event was a shovel-nosed canoe, carved for the tribe from an old-growth cedar by Lummi Nation master carver Felix Solomon.

The Daily Herald:

ARLINGTON — The guest of honor was the first chinook salmon of the season, but the focus of the day was the launch of the Stillaguamish Tribe’s first shovel-nose

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Bonneville Power Administration has a video describing its partnership with the Upper Skagit Tribe to improve elk habitat on a right-of-way near the tribe’s reservation.

NWIFC News reported about the project in our spring magazine:

The Upper Skagit Tribe has partnered with Bonneville Power Administration and timber company Sierra Pacific to enhance elk habitat on 20 acres near the tribe’s reservation in Sedro-Woolley.

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A staff member from the Squaxin Island Tribe demonstrated one of their research techniques yesterday afternoon to a group of students at Priest Point Park on Budd Inlet in Olympia.

The tribe uses beach seines to monitor marine populations throughout southern Puget Sound. You can read an article about the tribe’s nearshore research efforts in our Fall 2008 edition of our magazine.

For the past few years, the Nisqually Indian Tribe has seen a drastic increase in juvenile salmon rearing and feeding in the Mashel River. This is a direct result of recent habitat restoration work done up and down the important Nisqually River tributary.

Just posted a new video featuring the investigation by the Squaxin Island Tribe of mysterious summer blooms of bacteria in Oakland Bay.