The name “Salish Sea” was chosen as the “Name of the Year” by the American Name Society. Last year’s winner was “Barack Hussein Obama.” Check out www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/jan/12/salish-sea-becomes-name-of-the-year for more details.
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The Name “Salish Sea” Wins Award
January 14th, 2010 by jkonovsky · Comments Off
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State adopts the name “Salish Sea”
October 30th, 2009 by jkonovsky · Comments Off
The Washington State Board on Geographic Names met on Oct. 30 and gave formal approval to the term “Salish Sea” as an umbrella name for Puget Sound, Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Strait of Georgia. Its formal adoption by the state helps solidify the Squaxin view that the Tribe occupies [...]
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Choice High School Students pick up garbage in upper Oakland Bay
October 15th, 2009 by jkonovsky · Comments Off
October 15th was one of two days this year that the shellfish industry picked up garbage on beaches in South Sound. Four Choice High School students and their leader, John Johnson pitched in to clean up debris on the Twin River Ranch tidal marshland at the head of Oakland Bay.
In the phot0, Michael Hooton shows [...]
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Attend the annual Oakland Bay Open House on Oct. 20th
October 14th, 2009 by jkonovsky · Comments Off
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Chinook Spawning Begins at Tumwater Falls
September 21st, 2009 by Joseph Peters · No Comments
On Monday September 21, WDFW staff with some help from Squaxin NR staff began spawning approximatly 100 female and 100 male Chinook at the Tumwater Falls Hatchery.
An estimated 500,000 eggs were taken and milt from 100 males to Minter Creek Hatchery for fertilization. Eventually these fertilized eggs will return to Tumwater Falls Hatchery as Fry.
All [...]
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Rare catch in Squaxin coho fishery
September 21st, 2009 by Joseph Peters · 1 Comment
Ocean sunfish or Mola mola are a rare find in the Puget Sound. These fish are generally found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas. They feed primarily on jellyfishes. Although the photo above is a small Ocean sunfish, they can get up to 2 meters in length and are known as the heaviest bony [...]
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Transient Orcas visit Oakland Bay!
September 4th, 2009 by jkonovsky · No Comments
Photos courtesy of Taylor Shellfish staff and Phil Rousseau, a Simpson retiree. See also: http://picasaweb.google.com/clharrismeister/Orcas09?authkey=Gv1sRgCMzrlq-HwJngdA&feat=email# .
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Update on Summer 2009 Oakland Bay Water Quality
August 10th, 2009 by jkonovsky · No Comments
State and Tribal scientists use fecal bacteria (FC) as an indicator of water pollution in Oakland Bay. In 2006 during the summer months, the bacteria concentration in the water column at the head of Oakland Bay skyrocketed and restricted commercial harvest in some shellfish beds. In in the first half of the summer of 2009, [...]
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Journalists visit the Headwaters of the Salish Sea
July 13th, 2009 by jkonovsky · No Comments
The Squaxin Island Tribe and Taylor Shellfish hosted the 2009 Puget Sound Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources on July 12th. Fifteen journalists from around the county gathered to learn about the Tribe’s relationship with shellfish and its commercial production in South Sound. Lynda Mapes from the Seattle Times led the tour.
Charlene Krise, Tribal Council member [...]
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Weyerhaeuser Publishes Turbidity Data from the Deschutes River
June 30th, 2009 by jkonovsky · No Comments
Weyerhaeuser published a report in June 2009 in the Journal of American Water Resources Association (Volume 45, Number 3, Pages 793-808) detailing 30 years of turbidity data collected in the upper reaches of the Deschutes (WA) Watershed. To my knowledge, it is the longest water quality study on private forestlands in the Pacific Northwest.
In the mainstem river, [...]
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