For fish and floods: Restoring the Big Quilcene River
A new bridge over the Big Quilcene River will reduce flood impacts for area residents while allowing salmon, including threatened…
Category: Habitat
Dam removal site sees salmon numbers grow
Goldsborough Creek has become an example of what removing fish barriers and restoring habitat can accomplish. And the Squaxin Island…
Tribal youth collection eDNA from sockeye-rich Baker River
On a chilly October morning, as a group of youth from the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe reached the edge of…
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe managing pristine national wildlife refuges
Approaching the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is otherworldly: seals swimming within a…
Tribe, partners clear derelict boats from Squaxin Island
People looking over the waters off Squaxin Island early this summer had the chance to glimpse a peculiar sight: boats…
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…
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…
Invasive European green crab hit Quilcene Bay
The Skokomish Tribe will be conducting significant trapping efforts for invasive European green crab throughout Hood Canal this summer, including…
Bull kelp bed in shipping canal could support juvenile chinook
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is tracking juvenile salmon that are using an unlikely place to find refuge—a shipping canal.…