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Posted on Apr 8, 2022
$3 million will help tribes study salmon reintroduction in the Upper Columbia Basin
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Bringing salmon back to the Upper Columbia River will take a lot of time and a lot of money, according to the Upper Columbia United Tribes.
The tribes recently received $3 million from Washington’s supplemental budget – a big chunk of change that tribes said will help kick off the second phase of a decades-long study.
However, the tribes still will need to find significant funding sources, especially from federal agencies, to cover the entire study phase, which adds up to an estimated $176 million spread over 21 years, said Laura Robinson, a policy analyst with Upper Columbia United Tribes.
Recently, momentum has built to help along the Upper Columbia reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
“To get this large investment of funds from the Washington state Legislature and governor is really helping increase this momentum,” Robinson said.
The tribes recently received $3 million from Washington’s supplemental budget – a big chunk of change that tribes said will help kick off the second phase of a decades-long study.
However, the tribes still will need to find significant funding sources, especially from federal agencies, to cover the entire study phase, which adds up to an estimated $176 million spread over 21 years, said Laura Robinson, a policy analyst with Upper Columbia United Tribes.
Recently, momentum has built to help along the Upper Columbia reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
“To get this large investment of funds from the Washington state Legislature and governor is really helping increase this momentum,” Robinson said.
$3 million will help tribes study salmon reintroduction in the Upper Columbia Basin
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I already know the correct answer! Remove all of the damned dams and allow the Salmon freedom of passage upstream!
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Having the passages around the Hydro Electric Dams should allow them success moving Salmon further and further upstream. The more Salmon available the better for everyone.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."However, the tribes still will need to find significant funding sources, especially from federal agencies, to cover the entire study phase, which adds up to an estimated $176 million spread over 21 years, said Laura Robinson, a policy analyst with Upper Columbia United Tribes.
Recently, momentum has built to help pay for the Upper Columbia reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
“To get this large investment of funds from the Washington state Legislature and governor is really helping increase this momentum,” Robinson said.
Most of the $3 million will come through the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife starting July 1, 2022. The funds will cover work in Washington by the Colville, Spokane and Coeur d’Alene tribes.
In addition, the state funding will help pay for equipment to three of the Upper Columbia United Tribes tribes, Robinson said.
The money will help cover PIT tags, Passive Integrated Transponders, which allow researchers to track fish as they swim downstream. Each tribe also will buy tanker trucks to trap and haul adult and juvenile salmon, which will help with cultural and educational releases, as well as with reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
Funds also will help tribes build rearing facilities, including net pins to rear and release juvenile fish. In addition, the Colville and Coeur d’Alene tribes plan to build facilities to rear fish, such as at Hangman Creek in Spokane. These funds will help the tribes design those hatcheries.
The state is joining in what Coeur d’Alene Tribe member Hemene James called a "righteous endeavor," helping the ancestral salmon people of the Upper Columbia become salmon people once again.
“The understanding that our old ones had – when they put their pride aside and settled on our respective reservations – was that we would always be who we always were," James said. "At the center of that was the gift that the returning fish had always provided for us.”
Hydropower dams have blocked salmon from the Upper Columbia Basin for more than a century. Dams built on the Spokane River, and later Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia River, were all built without fish passages."...
..."However, the tribes still will need to find significant funding sources, especially from federal agencies, to cover the entire study phase, which adds up to an estimated $176 million spread over 21 years, said Laura Robinson, a policy analyst with Upper Columbia United Tribes.
Recently, momentum has built to help pay for the Upper Columbia reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
“To get this large investment of funds from the Washington state Legislature and governor is really helping increase this momentum,” Robinson said.
Most of the $3 million will come through the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife starting July 1, 2022. The funds will cover work in Washington by the Colville, Spokane and Coeur d’Alene tribes.
In addition, the state funding will help pay for equipment to three of the Upper Columbia United Tribes tribes, Robinson said.
The money will help cover PIT tags, Passive Integrated Transponders, which allow researchers to track fish as they swim downstream. Each tribe also will buy tanker trucks to trap and haul adult and juvenile salmon, which will help with cultural and educational releases, as well as with reintroduction studies, Robinson said.
Funds also will help tribes build rearing facilities, including net pins to rear and release juvenile fish. In addition, the Colville and Coeur d’Alene tribes plan to build facilities to rear fish, such as at Hangman Creek in Spokane. These funds will help the tribes design those hatcheries.
The state is joining in what Coeur d’Alene Tribe member Hemene James called a "righteous endeavor," helping the ancestral salmon people of the Upper Columbia become salmon people once again.
“The understanding that our old ones had – when they put their pride aside and settled on our respective reservations – was that we would always be who we always were," James said. "At the center of that was the gift that the returning fish had always provided for us.”
Hydropower dams have blocked salmon from the Upper Columbia Basin for more than a century. Dams built on the Spokane River, and later Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia River, were all built without fish passages."...
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