by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jan 26, 2015 | CRITFC News, ED's Message, The Dipnetter
For thousands of years, tribal cultures have been based on the First Foods that each came at their appointed time. Our calendars and travels were based on when these sacred foods—the salmon, the game, the roots, and the berries—were ready for harvest. Now, tragically,...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jan 26, 2015 | CRITFC News, River Scenes, The Dipnetter
Under a grant CRITFC received from the Potlatch Fund, Yakama artist Toma Villa has been working on painting murals and creating artwork to beautify the fishing access sites. Toma’s graffiti-style murals brightly depict tribal, natural, and historical themes. This...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jan 26, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
One of the main reasons the tribes created CRITFC in 1977 was to provide its member tribes with technical assistance on harvest, hatchery, water management, and fish passage issues. The CRITFC Fish Management Department does this in several ways. It tracks the...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jan 26, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Despite off-and-on rain and snow since October, Columbia River basin weather patterns are coming back to normal, although it is still a little on the warm, dry side. In general, mountain snow stations show the water contained in Oregon and Washington snowpacks is...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Dec 16, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
This year has been very busy for CRITFC and the tribes in regards to salmon, lamprey, river health, and treaty fishing. The record numbers of salmon returned to the Columbia River system was another indicator that the efforts to reverse the salmon decline are paying...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Nov 26, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
This year’s total counts of chinook, sockeye, steelhead and coho at Bonneville Dam set a new record since the dam was built in 1938. New record returns also occurred in the Snake River Basin since Lower Granite Dam was built (fall chinook, coho and sockeye) with...
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