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Tag: Invasive Species

Tribes collaborate to test invasive crab trapping method

Tribes collaborate to test invasive crab trapping method

September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

Lummi Nation Aquatic Invasive Species Division staff deployed a series of innovative “crab slab” traps around the Lummi Sea Pond…

Tribe partners with paper mill to monitor European green crab

Tribe partners with paper mill to monitor European green crab

July 8, 2024

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is partnering with a Port Angeles paper mill to expand invasive European green crab monitoring.…

Fight in “brushfire mode” against invasive crab

Fight in “brushfire mode” against invasive crab

January 17, 2023March 27, 2024

In the ongoing battle to curb the spread of invasive European green crab in the marine waters of Washington state,…

Makah Tribe Marks and Recaptures Dungeness and European Crab for Population Estimates

Makah Tribe Marks and Recaptures Dungeness and European Crab for Population Estimates

November 3, 2021March 27, 2024

A sample of native Dungeness crab and problematic European green crab in the Tsoo-yess River got a smear of red,…

Cooperation Key to Containing Green Crab Invasion

Cooperation Key to Containing Green Crab Invasion

April 2, 2020

Being Frank is a monthly column written by the chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from…

Fish, Plants Thrive in Restored Skokomish Estuary

Fish, Plants Thrive in Restored Skokomish Estuary

July 2, 2019October 18, 2022

A variety of fish and native plants in the 1,000-acre Skokomish Estuary have been thriving within two years of a…

Scotch Broom Beetles could help slow spread of invasive plant

Scotch Broom Beetles could help slow spread of invasive plant

June 22, 2019June 20, 2019

Northwest tribes are using seed-eating insects to manage the spread of Scotch broom, one of Washington state’s most invasive species.…

Sauk-Suiattle Tribe battles invasive knotweed

January 22, 2013

The Sauk-Suiattle Tribe is determined to eradicate invasive knotweed in its watershed. Knotweed is such a fast-growing invasive species, and…

Skokomish Tribe and the Hood Canal Dead Zone

September 22, 2006

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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