Skokomish Tribe and the Hood Canal Dead Zone
Here is some coverage of the Skokomish Tribe’s discovery of a dead-zone in southern Hood Canal this morning. This follows…
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Kitsap Sun: Skokomish River Restoration Project Gets $1 Million Lift
Kitsap Sun: The dream of restoring the Skokomish River estuary to a more natural condition could soon be realized now…
Seattle PI op-ed on the Puget Sound Initiative
Pretty good op-ed from the PI: Look out at the Puget Sound “and it looks like there’s nothing wrong with…
Being Frank: Life Without The Orca?
OLYMPIA (June 12, 2006) — Life just wouldn’t be the same without the orca.
For thousands of years, these magnificent mammals have splashed through the ocean waves and skipped playfully through the serene waters of Puget Sound. Tribal culture has been greatly inspired by these awesome black and white giants who have always been a wondrous sign of purity and vitality in the Northwest.
Now our brother orca is listed as an endangered species, a fact almost too tragic to perceive. Orcas will disappear from our waters unless we all work together to make sure we have an environment that will sustain them. As it is, we don’t. Our waters are riddled with toxic filth and it is slowly killing them.
The Olympian: Hood Canal gets help breathing
The Olympian has a great story this morning on the Skokomish Tribe’s efforts to help solve the low-oxygen problem in…
Clam Die Off On Hood Canal Beaches Affects Tribal Harvesters
BRINNON (July 22, 2002) Sometime this past winter hundreds of thousands of clams on three popular beaches in north Hood…
Old Maps Give New View Of Hood Canal’s Future
KINGSTON (Jan. 24, 2002) — When Captain George Davidson of the US Coast Survey mapped Hood Canal beginning in 1855,…