NREP Kicks Off Salmon Carcass Tossing Season!!!

December 7, 2011

Salmon Carcass Tossing is in full swing here at NREP!  Clarkmoor Elementary yesterday and Shining Mountain Elementary today!  Fresh air, exercise, and boosting the food chain for our threatened Chinook salmon….good work, students!!! To see more photos and learn more about the Nisqually River Education Project, visit us on Facebook!

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Volunteers Wanted for the Nisqually Salmon Watcher Program

November 7, 2011

Learn How to Identify and Count Adult Salmon While Joining in the Exciting Experience of Watching Salmon Spawn The Nisqually Stream Stewards Program is looking for volunteers to help monitor streams within the Nisqually River watershed during salmon spawning season. Volunteers will be trained to identify salmon species so they can count spawning adult salmon [...]

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Public television host’s view on the Nisqually

September 13, 2011

Carl Safina, host of the PBS series Saving the Ocean (among many other things), recently visited the Nisqually watershed. He wrote up a nice blog summarizing his visit: Salmon have lots of problems in many places. But some places have solutions. One is the Nisqually River in Washington State. There, wild Chinook Salmon were eliminated [...]

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Red Salmon slough dike removal coverage in the Olympian, KUOW

August 25, 2011

The Nisqually Indian Tribe’s current restoration of the Red Salmon Slough area at the mouth of the Nisqually is receiving some coverage on KUOW and in the Olympian. From the Olympian story: The last major dike removal project in the Nisqually River estuary will wrap up next week, freeing the river to flow naturally near [...]

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NY Times Green blog: As a River Warms, Hope Beckons

July 22, 2011

The recent New York Times article on global warming and the Nisqually watershed was followed up by with a blog post on the Times’ Green blog: In my article in Thursday’s Times about the future of the Nisqually watershed in Washington State, I mention efforts by conservation groups and land trusts across the country to [...]

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Nisqually watershed and climate change in the New York Times

July 21, 2011

The New York Times recently features the Nisqually watershed and how our efforts here are planning for climate change: For 10,000 years the Nisqually Indians have relied on chinook salmon for their very existence, but soon those roles are expected to reverse. Based on current warming trends, climate scientists anticipate that in the next 100 [...]

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Flight over the Nisqually River watershed

June 16, 2011

Here’s a great video featuring footage from a recent flight over the Nisqually by the many partner organizations that have helped restore and protect the watershed (via nwifc.org).

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Nisqually Chinook Plan Public Forum

February 10, 2011

This is your chance to let your voice be heard on updating how chinook are managed in the Nisqually River. Please sign in and enter your comments, or add your thoughts to someone else’s comments below. This forum will be open until Friday, May 6. You can also email comments to chinookplan@nisquallyriver.org There are a [...]

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