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December 2nd, 2013 | Tags: agriculture, berry grower, Cherry Point, fish dying in the Nooksack River, Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export pier, Jay Manning, Jim Bucknell, Lummi Natural Resources Department, Marty Maberry, Michael Mirande, Nooksack Indian Tribe, Nooksack River, pumping from wells, Randy Kinley, Salmon, Whatcom County Factories, Whatcom County Farms, Whatcom County's water rights disputes | Category: Community Rights, Feature, News, United States, Washington | BY JOHN STARK
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, June 3, 2013
Dan Kruse, left, and Robert Teton of the Lummi Natural Resources Department, use a net to try to catch juvenile salmon to count on Feb. 15, 2012 at Marine Park in Bellingham. The department counts juvenile salmon around Bellingham Bay about once every two weeks. The Lummi and Nooksack tribes have asked federal agencies to file a lawsuit on their behalf to help determine the amount [...]
Continue reading Wash. Water Dispute Clouds Future for Whatcom County Farms, Factories
November 22nd, 2013 | Tags: Brian Cladoosby, Jacque Klug, Salmon, Skagit County, Skagit River, Skagit River Basin, Stillaguamish River, Sun Peaks Estates, Swinomish Tribe, Wash. State Dept. of Ecology, water rights | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:00 am
Seven landowners in the Skagit River’s Carpenter-Fisher sub-basin have reached a settlement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and the state Department of Ecology that will allow them to get water to their properties.
Landowners in the Sun Peak Estates subdivision, located about one mile south of the Skagit County line and east of Interstate 5, will each be able to use 350 [...]
Continue reading Tribal & Wash. State Pact Allows Some in Carpenter-Fisher Sub-Basin to Use Water
By Terry Winckler: There are few victories sweeter and more dramatic than the one just wrested by Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman and his tribal allies in a Fresno, California courtroom last week. They did nothing less than save an entire run of chinook salmon from a corporate grab of the water needed by those fish to survive their spawning run up the Klamath/Trinity rivers system.
The drama–and believe me, it was a mix of theater, unexpected turnarounds, and life-or-death arguments–climaxed [...]
Continue reading Let the river flow: victory for indigenous people and salmon
Post by by Dan Bacher cross-posted from fishsniffer.com. Over 60 members of the Hoopa Valley Tribe rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Fresno on August 21 as U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill held a hearing regarding the temporary restraining order obtained. by Westlands Water District and the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority to block a plan to increase flows on the Trinity River.
They and members of the Klamath Justice Coalition held signs proclaiming, [...]
Continue reading Feds give away fish water to same growers suing over Trinity releases
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