Hatching a Plan for Northwest Salmon: Conference Highlights Fish Stock Restoration

Jackleen de La Harpe
October 28, 2012
Fish hatcheries built below the dams in the Pacific Northwest have replenished salmon stocks for downstream and ocean fishermen for decades, while upstream, wild runs where treaty ...

Swinomish Salmon Plight Highlighted on PBS Newshour

ICTMN Staff
July 19, 2012
In 1855 the Swinomish signed a treaty trading much of their land for fishing, hunting and shellfish-harvesting rights on their traditional territory...

Tribes Join Together to Restore Eel River

Dan Bacher
October 21, 2011
Native American Indian tribes from throughout Northern California are banding together with Friends of the Eel River to take "spiritual, scientific, and legal" action to save the w...
Billy Frank, Jr.

There Are a Lot More Elwhas Out There

We all owe a big "thank you" to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. They never gave up on getting those two dams torn down, and today that dream is becoming a reality. For 100 years they have had to wait for their treaty rights to be restored and for the salmon to return....

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October 05, 2011

In Washington, Demolishing Two Dams So That the Salmon May Go Home

Richard Walker
September 22, 2011
LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM, Washington—The dams' days are numbered, and for a dwindling population of salmon cut off from their historical habitat for a century, it's better late than nev...

Winnemen Wintu Join Conservation Groups in Suing Westlands Over Contract Renewals

Dan Bacher
September 14, 2011
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), Friends of the River, North Coast River Alliance, Save the American River Association and the Winnemen Wintu Tribe have file...

New Chief Joseph Salmon Hatchery: Restoring the Runs, Restoring the Culture

Jack McNeel
June 08, 2011
The Chief Joseph Dam Bridgeport, WA—It’s taken over half a century to get the process started, but ground has finally been broken on a salmon hatchery at Chief Joseph Dam...

Fall Chinook to Run High, But Spring-winter Numbers Plummet

Dan Bacher
March 28, 2011
A winter-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) reared to adulthood in a captive brood-stock program at Bodega Marine Laboratory/Courtesy of University of California at Davi...

Berkeley Art Auction Benefits Winnemen Tribe

Dan Bacher
February 04, 2011
The McCloud River used to be home to salmon galore, enough to nourish and maintain the Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe...

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