The Nature Conservancy is adding to the existing conservation efforts by the Hoh River Trust with the purchase that closed March 30 of the 3,184 acres. The deal continues the goal of creating a 32-mile conservation corridor...
Read MoreWashington Governor Jay Inslee visited the Hoh, Quileute and Makah tribes Friday and heard a number of environmental concerns. See the article in the Peninsula Daily News.
Read MoreThe Quileute Tribe is awaiting word on legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton to finalize a land acquisition detailed in a Seattle Times story here. Meanwhile, President Obama signed legislation just before...
Read MoreThe Hoh Tribe and the Hoh River are connected by a bond that can never be broken. Forever, as the river moved, so did the tribe. But that came to a stop after treaty times, when the tribe was confined to a 640-acre reservation...
Read MoreVivian Lee, chair of the Hoh Tribe, and Mike Hagen, their director of land management, had a great column in the Seattle PI this morning: Riprap speeds the river’s flow, eliminating resting areas important to fish. It...
Read MoreHOH RIVER WATERSHED (Sept. 18, 2006)– One of the most productive coho tributaries to the lower Hoh River just got even better for fish thanks to the removal of a fish-blocking culvert on its upper reaches.
“Anytime there is an opportunity to get one of these fish-blocking culverts out, the tribe wants to remove it,” said Tyler Jurasin, fisheries biologist for the Hoh Tribe. One of the tribe’s highest priorities is addressing fish passage problems in the Hoh watershed. The $60,000 Braden Creek project is a cooperative effort between the Hoh Tribe and private timberland owner Rayonier.
Read MoreHOH RESERVATION (Oct 14, 2002) An invasive plant, imported as an ornamental, threatens to impair stream function critical to fish on the Hoh River. The plant, Japanese knotweed, has the potential to thwart much of the Hoh...
Read MoreHOH (June 24, 2002) — One of the most productive coho streams in the Hoh River system runs next to one of the most popular hiking trails in the world. Taft Creek, a spring-fed tributary of the Hoh River on the Olympic...
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