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There is a $3 million budget deficit in protecting and restoring the Nisqually River watershed, all while the watershed itself pumps as much as $4 billion into the local economy each year. “It’s kind of crazy to think that we underfund the protection and restoration of something so valuable,” said […]

KCTS aired the “River of Kings” episodes of Carl Safina’s Saving the Ocean series locally on Wednesday February 27, 2013 at 7pm. However, you can still watch it now! Spend some time with Carl Safina in this two-part episode as he explores the Nisqually Watershed, from the glacier to the […]

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 […]

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).