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Tribes Recondition Steelhead to Bring Back Endangered Trout

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The notion of “reconditioning steelhead” might sound outlandish, even a bit ominous, at least when applied to an animal. Reconditioning is what’s done to prepare discarded electronics for resale, and the word carries connotations of recycling. How does one recycle a fish?

It turns out, though, to be the most accurate way to describe a unique practice being implemented in the headwaters of the Columbia Basin, to enable sea-going trout to spawn a second time without returning to the ocean in between. Only Indian tribes are doing this, although with cooperation from a couple of federal agencies. It started with the Yakama Tribe and has expanded to the Warm Springs, Colville and Nez Perce tribes...

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McNeel, Jack. "Tribes Recondition Steelhead to Bring Back Endangered Trout." Indian Country Today Media Network. October 24, 2013. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/tribes-recondition..., accessed October 25, 2013)

8 Tribes That Are Way Ahead of the Climate-Adaptation Curve

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Much has been made of the need to develop climate-change-adaptation plans, especially in light of increasingly alarming findings about how swiftly the environment that sustains life as we know it is deteriorating, and how the changes compound one another to quicken the pace overall. Studies, and numerous climate models, and the re-analysis of said studies and climate models, all point to humankind as the main driver of these changes. In all these dire pronouncements and warnings there is one bright spot: It may not be too late to turn the tide and pull Mother Earth back from the brink...

Colvilles celebrate $50 million hatchery

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The Spokesman-Review
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Cheers went up when Colville tribal fisherman Mylan Williams hauled a 20-pound chinook out of the Columbia River with a dip net. Then hats came off in a show of respect. Tribal elders circled the fish and sang, honoring the salmon that gave up its life to feed the people.

For thousands of years, ancestors of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have performed First Salmon ceremonies on the banks of the Columbia. But in recent decades, only a few fish have returned. The tribe recently celebrated the opening of a $50 million hatchery designed to bolster runs to the Upper Columbia and a tributary, the Okanogan River...

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Kramer, Becky. "Colvilles celebrate $50 million hatchery." The Spokesman-Review. July 2, 2013. Article. (http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jul/02/colvilles-celebrate-50-mill..., accessed March 24, 2023)