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This recent feature on Folsom Lake documents how chinook salmon are now spawning in the South Fork of the American River above Folsom Lake. This is good news for those working to reintroduce ocean-going salmon and steelhead in the tributaries of Cent...
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The Yakama Nation and federal government are navigating some tricky political currents in the latest controversy over fish habitat.
The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to rebuild wild fish populations by limiting hatchery fish, saying the latte...
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The small coho salmon run has left the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery about 750,000 eggs short.
The inexplicable shortfall means the hatchery must truck in coho eggs from the Wallace Creek Hatchery in Sultan in order to meet the 1.2 million-egg goal for the ...
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Responding to a lawsuit by an Indian tribe, government lawyers said Monday that officials properly approved a 10-square mile solar farm to power San Diego and asked a judge not to stop the project.
The Quechan Indian tribe has sued in San Diego federal...
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This summer, the President delivered his request for funding to the U.S. Department of the Interior and in that document the President requested a boost in spending of approximately 5 million in FY 2010 targeting Great Lakes cleanup and restoration eff...
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Could Everglades restoration get any more botched up?It’s not enough that the state agency in charge of the restoration is flat broke, or that the political will to add a tax or pile on more debt to keep the project going is nonexistent or that two a...
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HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Spiders at Wind Cave National Park booby trap the grass, their threads of silk revealed in low-angle sunlight.
In the southern Black Hills, bison and spiders go back a long way.
A Lakota story tells of a spider that tricks humans i...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The San Carlos Apache tribe is asking a federal judge for permission to join a suit seeking to return Endangered Species Act protections to bald eagles in Arizona. TO READ MORE......
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In May 2008, archaeologists began the tedious task of exhuming the remains of Native Americans at a remote site south of Lake Okeechobee and reburying them at another remote site, to make way for a man-made wetland needed to restore the Everglades. TO ...
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The National Marine Fisheries Service needs to hit the reset button on the government's approach to Columbia River hatcheries.
The agency's draft environmental study on hatchery operations is being condemned by stakeholders up and down the river.
Re...
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The controversial practice of killing sea lions to save salmon has itself been killed by a federal appeals court.
The three-judge panel found problems with the reasoning behind the program. TO READ MORE.......
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A group of South Dakota State University researchers is helping the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe revitalize an animal that has important ties to the Native American culture. TO READ MORE.......
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When the people of Stevens Village faced a meat shortage, they reached across time for an answer.
The remote native community is located on Alaska's Yukon River 90 air miles northwest of Fairbanks. Historically, moose numbers have been low. Caribou would...
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Harpers Ferry, Ia. - On 2,500 acres of towering bluffs near the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa, something sacred has been disturbed.It was more than 60 years ago when this land - filled with 206 sacred Indian mounds, some of them 2,000 or more year...
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Secretary Salazar Lauds Senate Passage of Five Historic Indian Country Settlements to Resolve Cobell Litigation and to Deliver Clean Water to Indian Communities Washington, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded Senate approval of le...
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Exotic species tested
FLATHEAD LAKE — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks may have found signs of exotic mussels in a routine plankton sample taken in July from the northern end of Flathead Lake near Woods Bay.
Eileen Ryce, FWP’s aquatic invasive species...
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WASHINGTON - November 22 - An Indian tribe is seeking federal backing for legislation transferring portions of Redwood National Park, Six Rivers National Forest and marine sanctuary waters off northern California to be run as a tribal park, according...
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When Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the company’s much-talked-about iPad last January, the screensaver photo depicted there brought instant global recognition to a Nevada tribe, even making the front page of the New York Times. TO READ MORE......
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PROSSER -- Joe Blodgett strips eggs from a wild female coho at the Prosser Hatchery and places them into a plastic strainer.
Hatchery workers then fertilize the eggs by hand before shipping them to Eagle Creek Hatchery in Estacada, Ore., south of Portla...
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Members of the Gabrielino Band of Mission Indians gathered at the Whittier Narrows wildlife sanctuary on Thursday to denounce plans to build a $22-million discovery center on a site they regard as ancestral lands. TO READ MORE.......
