by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 18, 2025 | CRITFC News
in honor of National Fishing Day (June 18), we are sharing this 2004 article about a Umatilla father passing on his love of fishing to his son that appeared in the CRITFC magazine Wana Chinook Tymoo. Quentin Quaempts can’t sit still. In fact it’s difficult to tell...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jun 17, 2025 | CRITFC News
Columbia River tribes work with CRITFC to release comprehensive update to groundbreaking conservation effort as climate change and habitat loss threaten cultural cornerstone PORTLAND, Ore. – Thirty years ago, most Pacific Northwesterners, the federal government, and...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | Jun 16, 2025 | CRITFC News
Yakama Nation Review and Confederated Umatilla Journal also win big with 11 awards combined Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) entered the annual media award contest for Indigenous news services and journalists its second time this year. According to...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 12, 2025 | CRITFC News
CRITFC Chair Jeremy Takala We are dismayed that an agreement that was among the best roadmaps charted for helping Columbia Basin salmon — representing years of work by tribes, states, and the federal government — was undone with the stroke of a pen. This action, done...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 5, 2025 | CRITFC News
James Ryan Marsh was a proud Cayuse man who never forgot his heritage. This pride in his lineage was reflected by his deep sense of responsibility he carried as both a Umatilla Commissioner and Fish and Wildlife Commissioner of 15 years. Through his bloodline, he felt...
by Jill-Marie Gavin | May 21, 2025 | CRITFC News
For fifty years, the Endangered Species Act has recognized the reality that a species can just as be threatened with extinction by losing their habitat as they are by directly killing them. Despite this precedent, as well as the fact that habitat loss is the number...
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