New salmon habitat for the lower Skokomish River
For the thousands of chinook salmon that return to the Skokomish River every year, the new habitat at River Mile…
Category: Habitat
Quinault’s intertidal survey builds valuable data
Quinault Indian Nation fisheries staff surveyed beaches near the Big and Little Hogsback volcanic formations in July to help track…
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…
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…
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…