Stillaguamish Tribe Natural Resources Department
The mission of the Natural Resources department is to manage, protect, and conserve those natural resources that are required to sustain healthy populations of fish, shellfish, and wildlife within the Stillaguamish Watershed.
Description:
The Stillaguamish Natural Resource Department monitors, conducts research, and restores wildlife habitat throughout the Stillaguamish watershed. Our activities include monitoring adult and juvenile salmon, monitoring water quality, monitoring eagles, murrelets, mountain goats, and elk. We also repair fish barriers and enhance stream habitat whenever possible. Our education department presents in-class salmon talks and our restoration hatchery provides interactive educational tours every fall.
We are recruiting volunteers for a variety of activities from helping with tree plantings to being an educational docent at our annual hatchery tours in the autumn. We have unique opportunities for people to get their feet wet during our annual broodstocking efforts or spring beach seining for juvenile Chinook. We also host an educational Festival of the River every summer, a fun venue in which volunteers could participate.
History:
The Stillguamish Natural Resource Department was created in 1978, four years after Judge Boldt affirmed treaties signed by Isaac Stevens and Puget Sound Indian Tribes in the 1880s. Beginning with three employees, we expanded to ten staff after several Puget Sound Salmon runs were listed on the Endangered Species List in 1999. Since then our department has played a large role in improving salmon habitat in the Stillaguamish watershed. Our contributions include dozens of habitat enhancement and restoration projects, including the Deer Creek landslide amendment, and participating in the development of several important publications such as the watershed analyses, the Chinook Technical Assessment, and Coho Habitat Loss.
Contact people:
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Franchesca Perez, Outreach Biologist, (360) 631-2620, (email)
Jason Griffith, Fisheries Biologist, (360) 631-0868 |
Office fax number: (360) 435-3605
Address:
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PO Box 277
Arlington, WA 98223 |
Web Site: http://www.stillaguamish.nsn.us
Directions:
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Take exit 210 off Hwy 5. Head east, then turn at your first left. Drive south about a mile and turn right athe logging road with two mailboxes. We are in the ranch house at the bottom on the right. |
| Last updated on April 28, 2009 |
