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Skokomish Tribe monitoring Skokomish Tidelands following restoration work
Following the Skokomish River estuary restoration effort in 2010, the Skokomish Tribe has been closely monitoring the project site in hopes of seeing salmon using the new habitat for feeding and...
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Skokomish Tribe, Partners Enhance Tidelands with Logs, Rootwads
Columbia Helicopter crew member Jim Hindman rounds up the chokes that were used to lower the wood pieces by helicopter into the estuary. Logs and rootwads were airlifted to the Skokomish River estuary...
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Skokomish Tribe studying stomach contents of juvenile salmon
The Skokomish Tribe is studying the diet of juvenile salmon that have taken up residence in the nearly 400-acres of newly restored Skokomish tidelands in southern Hood Canal. After gently flushing out...
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Skokomish Tribe starting largest phase of estuary restoration
The latest phase of the Skokomish Estuary restoration effort is the largest to date: 600 acres of forested wetlands are going to be reconnected to 400 acres of Skokomish tidelands. “The main goal of...
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Salmon using restored tidal channels in Skokomish Tidelands
The Skokomish Tribe has solid data showing how salmon are using the Skokomish Tidelands after a year of monitoring the 400-acre restored estuary. Skokomish steelhead biologist Matt Kowalski and natural...
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Native Vegetation Filling in Restored Skokomish Estuary
Skokomish Tribe habitat biologist Shannon Kirby takes note of the types of vegetation found in the Skokomish Estuary. Kneeling in a thicket of vegetation in the Skokomish estuary, Shannon Kirby combs...
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Skokomish Tribe Collects Oyster Spat from Hood Canal
Skokomish Tribe shellfish technician William Williams leans over the side of a boat and drops a cement block bristling with Pacific oyster shells into the water near the Skokomish tidelands. The tribe...
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Skokomish Tribe Controlling Japanese Oyster Drills on Tidelands
The Skokomish Tribe has strategically placed nearly 100 cinderblocks on the Skokomish tidelands with hopes of attracting an invasive shellfish, the ornate Japanse oyster drill. Shellfish technician...
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