Washington Sea Grant will hold a two-day Skills and Drills course for new or beginning commercial fishers Sept. 28-29 in South Bend. It's free for current or aspiring fishers, or $100 for non-commerical fishers.

The Nisqually Indian Tribe welcomed more than 100 canoe families Friday at Sequalitchew Creek Beach in DuPont. The annual journey typically draws canoes paddled by and representing Indigenous people from he Pacific Northwest and beyond. #canoejourney #treatyrights #paddletonisqually

The Suquamish Tribe hosted approximately 70 canoes and their canoe families this week during this year's 2026 Tribal Canoe Journey. The final landing at Nisqually will be this Friday, July 31.

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and Clallam County Marine Resources Committee have seen success over the past decade from their partnership to restore the Olympia oyster population in Sequim Bay. nwtreatytribes.org/restoration-...

The Suquamish and Squaxin Island tribes and Maritime Washington celebrated the release of the Tribal Guide to Maritime Washington website, a resource that invites visitors to learn more about Pacific Northwest tribes, with weaving, shellfish and language demos. maritimewa.org/tribal-guide

The higher the water temperature, the harder it is for salmon to survive. So the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe is testing temperature thresholds for 2,000 juvenile chum salmon. nwtreatytribes.org/tribe-tests-...

☀️ Our Summer 2026 Northwest Treaty Tribes magazine is out! 📖 Inside the magazine: Successful eelgrass and Olympia oyster restoration, a learning exchange with University students, how eDNA is helping to monitor the success of habitat restoration ... and more! nwtreatytribes.org/publications...

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory finished installing more than 43,000 eelgrass shoots in Port Angeles Harbor this spring, supporting habitat for juvenile salmon and other marine life in the bay. nwtreatytribes.org/eelgrass-tra...

The Makah Tribe, Olympic National Park and the Coast Salmon Partnership are embarking on their 5th year of helping restore habitat for Lake Ozette sockeye salmon with volunteer work parties July 13-15. See flier for details and to sign up.

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is evaluating the molting periods of Dungeness crab, after finding crab that still had soft shells during the harvest opening. nwtreatytribes.org/dungeness-cr...

We’re thrilled to introduce the new and improved Rooted Futures platform, designed to illuminate pathways to careers working with natural resources. It won a Bridge-Builder Award for Equity at UW. Check it out: rootedfutures.nwifc.org/

Community members gathered Thursday near Isthmus Park to dedicate a welcoming figure carved by Squaxin Island artist Andrea Wilbur-Sigo. The figure honors the relationship between the city and tribe, and marks natural resource restoration work still to come.

Tribes in Washington state are on the cutting edge of using environmental DNA to detect chinook salmon in some of the Olympic Peninsula's least accessible streams. columbiainsight.org/dna-fingerpr...

On Saturday morning, Puyallup Tribe of Indians members honored the first salmon of the season. In the afternoon, they marked the grand opening of a new, 24,000-square-foot longhouse, which was immediately put to use with a longhouse naming ceremony and First Foods ceremony.

Today is International Museum Day, a great time to consider visiting a tribal museum or cultural center near you! The Quinault, Makah, Elwha, Squaxin Island, Suquamish and Tulalip tribes are among those featured on this interactive map: www.indian-affairs.org/tmdmap.html.

A group of University of Washington and Neah Bay High School students have spent the past year sharing traditional practices and science education with each other. nwtreatytribes.org/college-high...

The Tulalip Tribes hosted an Earth Day Celebration on Wednesday with games such as ring toss, giveaways such as orca beans and a unified message: to protect the Earth and the species that call it home.

On Saturday, students from Wa He Lut Indian School in Olympia toured Classic Foundry in Seattle, where artists are building two 9-foot statues of treaty rights champion Billy Frank Jr. to be installed in the U.S. and state capitols later this year or early 2027.

Puget Sound Day on the Hill activities are underway this week in D.C., with testimony from tribal leadership reaching federal officials in meetings and in panels like "How Habitat and Clean Water Support American Seafood." 🔗 Learn more: psdoth.org/

Joined by visitors on First Beach in La Push, the Quileute Tribe held its Welcoming the Whales ceremony Friday with songs, dancing and a salmon offering for migrating gray whales.

Learn about Lummi Nation's effort to better understand hooligans (pictured), as well as how tribes are studying changes in salmon migration patterns, collecting ocean safety data and more in the spring magazine, available now: nwtreatytribes.org/publications...

Port Townsend high school students are using newly acquired math and science skills to support native Olympia oyster populations. nwtreatytribes.org/oyster-nurse... (Photos courtesy of the Northwest Maritime Center)

Tribes are keeping an eye out for a neurodegenerative disease that can have a devastating affect on wildlife populations. nwtreatytribes.org/wildlife-sta...

NWIFC Chairman Ed Johnstone urged Congress this week to adequately fund the natural resources and environmental programs that uphold treaty rights. Watch the full testimony here: www.youtube.com/live/1iTI_qq...

The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe's culture department held a cedar weaving class for tribal members recently. The women worked on belts for their regalia, shared advice, and socialized while songs from previous tribal canoe journey protocols played in the background.

With BIlly Frank Jr. Day approaching on March 9, hundreds of visitors gathered at River Ridge High School Wednesday to celebrate the life and work of the tribal leader and treaty rights advocate.

The Muckleshoot Tribe's work to protect salmon drew interest from more than 8,000 miles away late last year. The tribe hosted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as they toured some of Western Washington's leaders in science, technology and engineering.

National Native American Law School Students will host a screening of the feature-length documentary FISH WAR at 5 p.m. March 5 with tribal leaders Ramona Bennett and Ed Johnstone. The screening will be at UW Law, Room 138, located at 4293 Memorial Way NE in Seattle. #treatyrights

Calling beach and bird enthusiasts! An opportunity to get involved in COASST (Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team) is coming up on Camano Island this weekend. Get trained to collect and submit valuable bird mortality data, and take home all the equipment you need to participate.

Skokomish tribal staff have been keeping a year-round eye on bird activity within the tribe's tidelands, curious how the various populations have been using the restored estuary for the past decade.