Hoh Tribe’s Planting Effort Using Science To Combat Insect
HOH RIVER (March 21, 2005) – Plant a tree and it will grow. It’s not that simple though when the…
Tag: Salmon Habitat
Tribes Release Watersheds Report
OLYMPIA (January 24, 2005) – The treaty Indian tribes in western Washington, in cooperation with the state of Washington, have…
Nisqually River Chinook Trending Towards Recovery
NISQUALLY (January 19, 2005) – A decade ago, only 400 chinook salmon spawned in the Nisqually River. This year more…
Rivers End Homes Removed To Help Restore Estuary
DUNGENESS (Dec. 27, 2004) – In the 1800s, the lower reach of the Dungeness River flowed through a 100-acre floodplain…
Restoration Projects Would Improve Salmon Habitat In Salt Creek
PORT ANGELES (December 7, 2004) – The Salt Creek Watershed has about 50 miles of fish habitat, but half of…
Road Abandoned To Restore Salmon Habitat
CLALLAM BAY (December 1, 2004) – It’s not often that removing a road will provide better access, but for fish…
Strong Laws Will Protect Salmon
November 1, 2004 We need good, strong laws to protect salmon. King, Pierce and other counties surrounding Puget Sound are…
Nisqually Tribe Restores Yelm Creek Salmon Habitat
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.
Hatcheries Aren’t Habitat
There’s no question that hatcheries have a role to play in salmon recovery, but hatchery fish aren’t wild fish, just…