Tribes awarded grant to keep nuisance elk off private property
North Sound treaty tribes are continuing to help landowners keep problem elk off their property...
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Tag: Tulalip
Levee breach improves fish access to entire Snohomish watershed
After 20 years of planning and $20 million invested by a number of partners, the Ebey Slough levee...
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Beavers relocated to improve salmon habitat
This summer, raceways at the Tulalip Tribes’ Bernie Kai-Kai Gobin Hatchery were renovated into...
Read MoreTulalip Tribes harvest highly nutritious stinging nettles
The Tulalip Tribes’ Hibulb Cultural Center is finding new uses for stinging nettles, a traditional medicinal plant. Participants in Hibulb’s Rediscovery Program, led by Inez Bill, harvest nettles from the tribes’ forestlands...
Read MoreTribes partner to survey forestlands with LIDAR
The Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes have partnered with the state Department of Natural Resources and three private timber companies to map forestlands in the Stillaguamish and Skykomish basins. LIDAR, which stands for Light...
Read MoreTribes study chinook use of small coastal streams
The Tulalip Tribes and Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) recently completed a six-year study of juvenile chinook salmon use of small coastal streams in the Whidbey basin. “Small coastal streams are often overlooked as...
Read MoreTribes partner in marine survival research
Treaty Indian tribes have invested millions of dollars in hatchery programs and habitat restoration, but poor marine survival continues to stand in the way of salmon recovery. Marine survival rates for many stocks of chinook,...
Read MoreMarine survival research focuses on juvenile salmon, preferred prey
Fisheries managers studying poor ocean survival of salmon are concentrating their research on juvenile fish and their preferred prey. Several tribes are collaborating on studies slated to begin in 2014 as part of the Salish Sea...
Read MoreTulalip Tribes turn “gulch” into Greenwood Creek
The Tulalip Tribes recently improved rearing habitat in a small coastal stream popular with juvenile chinook. Known to locals as “the gulch,” the unnamed stream had one of the highest densities of juvenile chinook of all the...
Read MoreVideo: Tribes survey Nooksack herd using elk scat
Wildlife biologists from the Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes are using elk scat to estimate the population of the Nooksack herd in the Acme, Wash., area. Tribal biologists partnered with Western Washington University’s Huxley...
Read MoreNorth Sound media localize culvert ruling
The Herald of Everett takes a look at culverts in Snohomish County, some that will have to be repaired by the state under Judge Martinez’s ruling, and some that already have been repaired: Puget Sound-area Indian tribes in...
Read MoreTribes sample elk DNA to track population
Wildlife biologists from the Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes are testing a new way to track the population of the Nooksack elk herd using the animals’ scat. Tribal biologists have partnered with Western Washington University’s...
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