Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe enhances Olympic Peninsula streams with logs and rocks for salmon, lamprey habitat
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe used nearly 2 million pounds of logs and rocks this summer to improve salmon and…
Tag: Strait Of Juan De Fuca
The Return of Hood Canal Summer Chum
The scent of decomposing salmon might be offensive to some, but to Thom Johnson, it’s a sweet reminder of nearly…
Jamestown S’Klallam, WDFW partner on Strait Geoduck Study
Due to its popularity with harvesters and shellfish lovers, scientists are learning more about geoduck clams found in the Strait…
Puyallup Tribe urges state to save Voights Creek hatchery
From the Seattle Times: Buried deep within the 298 pages of the proposed Senate operating budget for 2009-11 is the…
Coast, Strait Tribes Receive Compensation for Sockeye Run
The Peninsula Daily News reported on the Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam tribes receiving federal funding to make…
Rescue tug rescues the coastal environment
It happened again Dec. 3: Another near grounding of a cargo ship off the Washington coast at our home in Neah Bay.
Forty-foot seas powered by 90 mph winds knocked out the main steering on the 720-foot Mattson Kauai near the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Waves shattered all of the windows in the ship’s wheelhouse as the vessel wallowed offshore.
Thankfully, the ocean rescue tug Gladiator was on station and able to tow the Kauai to safety. Sadly, neither the state nor federal government will commit to financing placement of a rescue tug year-round in Neah Bay.
Close calls like the Kauai don’t make much of a splash in the news, and they happen more often than you know. In the past eight years, the part-time rescue tug at Neah Bay has assisted more than 30 ships in distress. Every year more than 2,000 cargo ships enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca bound for Puget Sound.
Study shows how shorelines have changed in 150 years
LITTLE BOSTON (February 6, 2007) – History is helping show the way for salmon recovery efforts in Kitsap County and…