One big day to help local salmon habitat: Time to choose your site for Duwamish Alive!

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The river and the salmon need you. Find your spot right now for the one-day, multiple-location Duwamish Alive! restoration event – here’s the info:

Celebrate Earth Day with Duwamish Alive! Help Restore Our River.
Saturday, April 20th, 10 – 2 at multiple watershed locations

Join us for Duwamish Alive! in restoring habitat along the Green-Duwamish River for juvenile salmon that are coming down the river this spring. Our river is home to all 5 salmon species, including Chinook, which are important to our local resident orca. We will be restoring habitat at multiple locations throughout the watershed along the river, its upland forests and creeks – we are all connected. Həʔapus Village Park will have our Duwamish tribal welcome, presentations, and tabling — all are invited, volunteers and visitors. Instruction, tools, and snacks are provided for restoration activities. This is a family friendly event, all ages welcome.

Afterward, attend a special event at the Duwamish Longhouse with two indigenous Wisdom Keepers from the Hopi and Spokane Tribes sharing indigenous perspectives about climate change and their experience attending the Dubai Climate Summit: Duwamish Longhouse 4705 W Marginal Wy SW – 1:00 – 3:00

For more information and volunteer registration go to DuwamishAlive.org

Questions? info@duwamishalive.org

937 April 4, 2024 (12:01 pm)

Advocate for the re-establishment of the Black River! Remove the ‘straightening’ of the lower Duwamish!!

Re-form the natural drainage of the Lake Washington/ship canal/Fremont cut/salmon bay estuary. Remove the Ballard Dam and Locks (the LARGEST salmon killer in the northwest)

Anything short of reforming the ancestral waters – we are only paying lip service to “protecting salmon”

lucy April 4, 2024 (1:16 pm)

that poster is FANTASTIC! Where can I purchase one?

CJ April 4, 2024 (9:14 pm)

Totally agree! Love the art!

TJ April 4, 2024 (7:15 pm)

That is a pipe dream and not reality 937 (if you are serious). Lake Washington’s water level was 9 feet higher before the locks were built, so there is no way to go back to that obviously. And the reduction of the lake level is what was the end of the Black River

937 April 5, 2024 (9:11 am)

Hi TJ – thank you for your contemplative submission. Alas no. My post is NOT at all a “pipe dream” and is indeed very serious. For you see, everyone in these parts want to do their part to “save the salmon” “advocate for the salmon” etc. Up to and including removing green energy and agriculturally necessary dams hundreds of miles away. All the while overlooking some of the greatest “sins” right in their very back yards.

In the name of prosperity and industry – TPTB decimated one of the great salmon watersheds with steam shovels, water cannons and dredges. Dumping millions of yards of dirt into a once vibrant river delta. (and then putting an airport, and a “world class” cargo shipping center on it – is there ANYTHING dirtier?? Amongst other things) Creating a insane bottleneck that decimates incoming and outgoing salmon. Whether it be by shredding them in transit (barnacles and sealife) or being gorged upon by overpopulated birds and pinnipeds, or shooting them out of the estuary with no bends or backwater eddies to allow for rest and acclimation. The central puget sound became devoid of a natural path to the sea.

If one is going to advocate for the health of the salmon population – by removal of of structures and impediments (see the article in the ST about culverts recently) One can NOT in good faith not discuss the removal of the greatest stain on the salmon population in the northwest – which is the destruction of the Lake Washington/Duwamish/Black river watershed. It CAN be done. It WILL be costly – but like I said – until this wrong is righted, we are only paying lip service to “Protecting” and “advocating” for salmon.

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