Chinook salmon struggling in warming river system
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe wants to know what struggles spring chinook salmon face during the journey to their spawning grounds…
Category: Climate Change
Salmon survival monitoring project needs stable funding
With what may have been the last round of federal funding support, a research team gathered offshore monitoring data throughout…
Partnership takes student science to the beach
When two Pioneer Middle School students picked their way across the tidelands of Little Skookum Inlet earlier this year, they…
Estuary project essential for Skagit River chinook
At Similk Bay on the south side of Fidalgo Island, a habitat restoration project is in the works that could…
What would it mean to repeal the Climate Commitment Act?
The state’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) provided $3.2 billion to the 2023-2025 budget, generated by auctioning off emission allowances to…
Climate Act boosts Quinault’s climate change fight
Thanks to funding made possible by the state’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA), the Quinault Indian Nation’s mission to face climate…
Climate Commitment Act funds study strengthened with tribal knowledge
The Hoh Tribe is producing a climate change assessment combining the stories and knowledge of tribal members with hard data.…
Tribe exploring water quality, fish health link in Skagit Bay
To better understand how the health of Skagit Bay shifts over time and how changes correlate with the health of…
Being Frank: Repealing Climate Commitment Act comes at too high a cost
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…