Before the colonial era, 100,000s of people lived on the land now called California, and many of their cultures manipulated fire to control the availability of plants they used for food, fuel, tools, and ritual. Contemporary tribes continue to use fire to maintain desired habitat and natural resources. Frank Lake, an ecologist with the U.S. […]
Chapter Thirteen of “Where the Salmon Run” written by Trova Heffernan and sponsored by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed. Chapter Thirteen | Resilience Billy is sometimes compared to the Energizer Bunny, the immortal character that came to life in 1989 beating the drum for the long life of Energizer batteries. Billy’s own ability to keep […]
The battle for aboriginal fishing rights secured by treaty continues through chapter six, culminating in the “Battle of Franks Landing.” The battle continues as arrests continue and celebrities as well as other personalities come to the aid of the Washington Indians. But, in chapter seven, we read of an era where both Martin Luther King […]
The last chapter told of how as fish began to dwindle and there became more fishing effort on the river with commercial as well as sport fishermen took a larger and larger portion of the fish the state of Washington sought to regulate the Indian fishing on the river. The battle went to the courts […]