Saturday, December 10th was a day to remember in the Nisqually watershed. On that day, 17 projects partners spanning across 5 watersheds in the south Puget Sound were honored for the amazing work done to restore the Nisqually Estuary. For over 15 years, the Nisqually Estuary Restoration Team has worked […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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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!
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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