Kitsap Sun: Suquamish Tribe taking lead on Blackjack Creek restoration
The Kitsap Sun reports that Suquamish Tribe has applied for a grant from Department of Ecology to update an overall…
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The Kitsap Sun reports that Suquamish Tribe has applied for a grant from Department of Ecology to update an overall…
The Seattle Times’ Lynda Mapes posted a wrap up of the latest efforts to complete the Elwha River Restoration project. The…
ARLINGTON — The state Department of Transportation (DOT) and a crew of inmates are helping the Stillaguamish Tribe restore 40…
“I’m 78 right now and still in the courtroom all day, still talking about fixing the salmon problem,” Frank said. “It never seems to get done, and we’re running out of time.” – Billy Frank Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.
From the Olympian this morning, an article about using trees from behind Alder Lake dam to restore a stretch of…
The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) has found evidence that beavers living in the tidal marsh are creating prime salmon…
A new biogas plant on Tulalip tribal property is creating more than energy; it’s also generating revenue for future salmon restoration projects.
“We took a leap of faith when we put it out to bid that we could come up with the money for the additional jams this year,” said Ed Johnstone, fisheries policy representative for QIN. To complete the additional four jams, QIN had to buy more logs. Thanks to last-minute donations of $10,000 from Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition in Forks, $15,000 from Wild Salmon Center in Portland and $25,000 from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the project protecting one of the last remaining spawning channels for sockeye was completed.
Historically, Quinault River sockeye had more than 55 miles of spawning habitat from the mouth of Lake Quinault to the Olympic National Park border. Today there are fewer than 3 miles of spawning habitat corresponding with a precipitous drop in sockeye populations. Halting the erosion of remaining spawning habitat and creating more is a goal of the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN).