Tribes Continue To Obstruct Open Meetings | What Next?
After months of questions and petitions to WDFW advocating transparency within the all-important season-setting negotiations with the Treaty Tribes, this years meetings are set to proceed in…
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Gray’s Harbor- Irreconcilable Differences?
Season-setting discussions for Grays Harbor salmon officially kicked off on February 22. The moment we’ve all been nervously waiting for delivered a mixed bag as…
Open Letter to the NW Treaty Tribes & Lorraine Loomis
We read with optimism your editorial from Tuesday over at the Northwest Treaty Tribes website. There are a lot of encouraging notes to be found, including…
Transparency | Generating Mainstream Media Coverage
The continued pressure from citizens for greater transparency in the season-setting process has begun to generate mainstream media attention. King 5 had a reporter down…
Tribal Catch Reporting, Part 2
[Editors notes: We received a letter on Jan 12th from WDFW/Ron Warren, asserting that state is in possession of 2016 fish tickets from the Tribes,…
Point No Point Boat Ramp | Definite Maybe
The sometimes endless seeming saga of the boat ramp at Point-No-Point lurched forward a bit this week, on news that the State and Tribes had…
DNR Protects 3400 Acres of Dabob Bay
Outgoing Commissioner of Public Lands, Peter Goldmark, signed an important 11th hour executive — expanding the Dabob Bay protected areas by nearly 3400 Acres. We…
NO Coho Catch Reports from Sound Tribes for 2016
[Editors notes: We received a letter on Jan 12th from WDFW/Ron Warren, asserting that state is in possession of 2016 fish tickets from the Tribes,…
WDFW Explores Open Meetings for NOF | Tribes Resist
On the heels of an acrimonious and controversial North of Falcon season-setting process in 2016, the WDFW Commission is exploring avenues to bring a more open…
Spotlight: Twin Harbors Fish & Wildlife Advocacy group action
In a letter jointly addressed to the Director of WDFW and the Chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, the Twin Harbors Fish & Wildlife…