Muckleshoot’s Ballard Locks program shows promise
When the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe embarked on a pilot program to transport sockeye from the Ballard Locks to a hatchery,…
Restoration effort is decolonizing the Stillaguamish delta
Where the Stillaguamish River winds its way through a patchwork of agricultural lands toward the sea, the Stillaguamish Tribe of…
Derelict boat removed from valuable intertidal habitat
For nearly 15 years, the sunken 65-foot sailboat called Windjammer sat derelict near the shore of Kiket Island, where the…
Students team with Puyallup Tribe to raise, release salmon
A partnership between the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and two nearby schools continued this year, inspiring students to learn more…
Salmon Recovery is working, but we can’t stop here
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…
Indigenous scientists exchange knowledge at local workshop
Understanding water quality and fish health data is critical to protecting and managing treaty resources such as salmon. A group…
Suquamish tribal elders hold clam harvest after hiatus
More than 40 Suquamish tribal elders participated in a clam dig in Chico Bay in July, for the first time…
Fisheries co-managers drafting joint hatchery policy
For decades, treaty tribes have operated their own hatchery programs to help sustain the region’s salmon and steelhead populations. Tribes…
Fish culture class brings together tribal hatchery staff
Being surrounded by peers can make a positive difference in a learning environment. That was the goal of a two-week…
Quinault Indian Nation studies hands-off approach to elk capture
Helicopter surveys are considered the most reliable way to manage elk populations, but they’re also expensive, laborious and dangerous. The…
‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number
A record number of Baker River sockeye are making their way upriver this year. The fisheries co-managers—consisting of the Upper…
Culvert inventory a new approach to widespread fish passage challenges
Beneath the network of roads that allow people to move across the landscape, fish access to habitat is often disrupted…
Pacific Lamprey population important to Elwha River restoration
Looking like a Ghostbuster, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe project biologist Justin Stapleton shoulders a backpack with boxes and switches connected…
Crabbers must be accountable for their share of the harvest
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…
Floating ban put in place to protect Nooksack River salmon
Floating down the South Fork Nooksack River in an innertube, kayak or other flotation device as a summer pastime was…
Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices
As part of a growing effort to revive ancestral food stewardship practices, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community this spring invited…
New tools aid estuary restoration
As the Squaxin Island Tribe and partners continue to restore and revitalize Shelton Harbor, the tribe has turned to a…
Tribe, partners discover cancer in cockles
The Suquamish Tribe’s work to increase the regional cockle population for harvest has resulted in an unexpected discovery. Cockle cancer.…
Being Frank: Tell the truth, trust the science about orca recovery
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…
This Coast Salish food staple is blooming again
Lavender-colored flowers blooming across prairie landscapes were once a beacon to the region’s Indigenous people that a bounty of root…
Olympic Cougar Project reveals habitat limitations
It’s only taken a few years for the Olympic Cougar Project to develop a picture of how the cougar population…
Quileute students learn with robotics
When former Quileute Tribal School students returned to judge a robotics competition among current students, they showed this year’s competitors…
Subsistence fishery puts food in tribal members’ freezers
For just a few hours one morning in May, Lummi Nation tribal members in about a dozen aluminum boats took…
Skokomish Tribe faces elk herd challenges
Elk mortality and failing radio collars have challenged the Skokomish Tribe’s efforts to track elk in the Olympic Peninsula. “We…
Tribes, Sound Toxins providing predictive data for harmful algal blooms
With more than 10 years of data under their belts, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe natural resources staff have developed a keen…