Puyallup Tribe saving, tracking steelhead
The Puyallup Tribe recently kick started two projects to help save Puyallup River steelhead, one of the stocks currently being…
Protecting Natural Resources for Everyone
The Puyallup Tribe recently kick started two projects to help save Puyallup River steelhead, one of the stocks currently being…
Georgiana Kautz, the Nisqually Tribe’s natural resources manager, had a good opinion piece on harvest published in the News Tribune…
OLYMPIA, WA (January 26, 2006) — Today we know it as Puget Sound. For thousands of years, my ancestors have known it as the Wulge, or the Salish Sea. Whatever you call it, this magnificent estuary that connects us with the great ocean beyond is critical to your survival. It doesn’t matter whether you fish or not. It doesn’t matter what your income or education levels are. It doesn’t matter what your ethnic origin is, what your religion is, or even your political party. Whoever you are, whatever you do, your health and well-being—as well as that of your children—are directly connected with the health of the Puget Sound, its connecting rivers, groundwater and ocean.
Frankly, that health is not so good. That’s not news to us tribal members. The locust-like swarms of Europeans and others who have migrated here over the past few centuries have been bent on over-exploiting virtually every resource the Northwest has to offer, and degrading land, water and sky in the process. Even the mighty Orca has now been listed on the Endangered Species List, due largely to the decline in the health of the water it lives in. All of these are indicators that your health and well-being are in trouble.
The Olympian has a great story this morning on the Skokomish Tribe’s efforts to help solve the low-oxygen problem in…
OLYMPIA (May 2, 2005) – A new automatic clipping and tagging trailer is assisting treaty tribes in western Washington in…
NISQUALLY (January 19, 2005) – A decade ago, only 400 chinook salmon spawned in the Nisqually River. This year more…
November 1, 2004 We need good, strong laws to protect salmon. King, Pierce and other counties surrounding Puget Sound are…
Almost ten years after a flood ravaged salmon habitat on Yelm Creek the Nisqually Tribe and the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group are repairing some of the damage.
“This entire area was underwater in 1996,” said Teresa Moon, project manager for the SPSSEG. “The flood changed a lot across the watershed, for good and for bad.” The tribe and the enhancement group are digging out a pond that was filled with sediment during the flood and opening salmon access to the upper creek by modifying a fish-blocking logjam in a steep canyon.
As the Mars Rovers scout the so-called angry red planet in search of ancient signs of life-sustaining water, it is…