by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 8, 2023 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Columbia River flowing into the Pacific Ocean. Since time immemorial, tribes have followed well-worn trails to their traditional fishing, hunting, and gathering grounds. The Columbia River tribes consider rivers and streams to be the trails that salmon use on their...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jun 1, 2023 | CRITFC News
By Jill-Marie Gavin for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission MISSION – The Children’s Root Feast returned to the Mission Longhouse after a 3-year hiatus due to the Covid- 19 pandemic. Nearly 500 community members gathered on May 11 to celebrate the...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 25, 2023 | CRITFC News
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission celebrates being awarded a First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) grant under the Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (NAFSI) to fund its project Expanding the Columbia River Treaty Tribal Foods Systems...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 21, 2023 | CRITFC News
Kyle Dittmer, CRITFC Hydrologist-Meteorologist Rising rivers due to snowmelt is one of many cues that the Creator tells us that spring is here. The normal pattern of rising spring river levels is also a cue to salmon smolts to move downriver as fast as possible which...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Mar 22, 2023 | CRITFC News
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission’s (CRITFC) Laurie Porter wins the 2023 Oregon Chapter of American Fisheries Society (ORAFS) Award of Merit for her work in lamprey. The ORAFS Award of Merit is presented to recipients who make major contributions to...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Mar 9, 2023 | CRITFC News
WAPATIT N’CHII WANAPAMA NUSUX ‘Help the Columbia River Salmon’ The Bateman Island causeway is an artificial, non-permitted earthen pathway constructed to connect Bateman Island to the City of Richland. For over 80 years, the causeway has created a...
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