Being Frank: Today’s youth are tomorrow’s environmental stewards
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
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Elwha River logjams boost salmon habitat
The function of large wood in a river for salmon habitat could be compared to the game Plinko, from the TV show “The Price is Right.” With the wood structures as the bounce points and the water as the...
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Skokomish River reach gets closeup restoration monitoring
The Skokomish Tribe is gathering detailed data on how the upper South Fork Skokomish River is responding following more than a decade of salmon habitat restoration. “The upper South Fork is basically...
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Treaty steelhead fishery provides winter harvest opportunity
Winter steelhead returning to the Skagit River watershed to spawn this year will support tribal treaty fishing opportunities for the third year in a row. These steelhead were an invaluable winter food...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Indigenous Nations unite for salmon recovery
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
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Tulalip takes collaborative approach on fish passage projects
The Tulalip Tribes are prepared this year to pull metal piping known as culverts from beneath roadways to improve the flow of streams—and the ability of salmon to reach habitat in those waterways—at...
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Science partnership benefits Dungeness crab
Treaty tribes and their partners in the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group (PCRG) want more than data out of their research—they want to see how a collaborative approach to collecting data can help...
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Books showcase cultural teachings for youth, scholars
Three generations of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community recently published a collection of children’s books and are featured in a special collection of perspectives on traditional ecological...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Tribes not interested in ‘Museum Fish’
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
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Old pontoon, derelict boats removed from Neah Bay
A steel and concrete pontoon from Interstate 90 that had been sitting in Neah Bay for nearly 40 years has finally been removed. As part of the derelict vessel removal project, a crane aboard a barge...
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