Rewilding the White Salmon River

Oct 9, 2020 | Fish Research Updates, News Articles

Attached is an excellent review of research and findings to date of the state of wild fish since the dam removal. Please take the time to read the September 2020 issue of The Osprey

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In the Treaty of 1855, the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation ceded some land to the US, but kept some of their rights rights affecting that land and their resources. If you live here, you need to understand this. Read more here https://friendsofthewhitesalmon.org/wp-content/uploads/Treaty-Rights-1-18-21.pdf

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Under Canvas update. It is my understanding that on Friday two appeals of the SEPA determination were filed. FWSR filed comments, which we will post on the website, but it takes lawyers to file SEPA appeals, and it's great news that Under Canvas opponents could get that done. The response from Under Canvas and the County will probably be a while. They could withdraw this SEPA and try again, or call for a full environmental assessment, or they could decide to litigate the appeal. Stay tuned.

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Cougars (and bears) are being killed indiscriminately here in Klickitat County, and in some other counties in the state. WDFW has abdicated their responsibility to protect predators, whose presence in the ecosystem benefits us all.
NOW, the Fish and Wildlife Commission is going to approve a program called the “ WDFW Managed Nonlethal Pursuit Training Program” to allow hound hunters to practice (yup) hound hunting by hunting cougar. The hunters are not supposed to kill the cougar they are harassing, but the hunters can bring friends and family along to participate. This is little more than a system of private hound hunting. Washingtonians spoke loud and clear years ago against hound hunting. It is absolutely unacceptable for WDFW to be reinstating hound hunting in this underhanded way.

Write to the Fish and Wildlife Commission and ask that this proposal be tabled. The law authorizing it has already passed, so we need to do something about that, too, but this "training" proposal can be tabled indefinitely. Let's do this, folks.

The proposal comes before the Commission on January 29 at 10:15. Here’s a link to the agenda. https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/commission/meetings/2020/28-30jan2021-fwc-agenda

Here’s a link to the Commission’s website comment page. https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/commission/contact

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