Sustaining our Traditions and Culture

Sustaining our Traditions and Culture

Sustaining our Traditions and Culture

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The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is a semi-aquatic rodent, distinguished by a paddle-like tail and webbed hind feet

Beaver

Clams and oysters are harvested primarily for ceremonial and subsistence purposes only

Clams and Oysters

The Coho Creek Restoration Project was to enhance fish habitat within and along Coho Creek, a small stream passing through Quil Ceda Village

Coho Creek Restoration

The Puget Sound Dungeness crab fishery uses a “3-S” design to maintain a conservation-based resource management strategy.

Crab

North American elk have been an important cultural resource for the native tribes of Western Washington

Elk

Fish Barrier Removal benefit fish and landowners through the removal or replacement of fish passage culverts and the installation of larger culverts or bridges

Fish Barrier Removal

The Tulalip Tribes manage fisheries for salmon and steelhead as well as many species of marine fish and shellfish

Fisheries

The Tulalip Forestry Program oversees the successful perpetuation of long-term sustainable forestry practices

Forestry

The Puget Sound geoduck fishery is one of the most lucrative fisheries on the West Coast of North America

Geoduck

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program focuses on providing geospatial technical support to the department’s staff and programs

GIS

The Restoration, Acquisition and Stewardship program is committed to working with private landowners to achieve common goals

Haberzetle Dam Removal Restoration

The Tulalip Wildlife Program funds and implements a number of habitat enhancement projects

Habitat Enhancement

The Tulalip Tribes conducts research and monitoring throughout the Tribes’ Usual and Accustomed areas across the Puget Sound Region

Habitat Monitoring and Research

Invasive species are plants, animals, or other living organisms that do not naturally occur in the ecosystem

Invasive Species

Lochsloy Floodplain Restoration Project

Lochsloy Floodplain Restoration Project

Tulalip’s “Mountain Camp” and “Fish Camp” are developed and overseen by the Tulalip Natural and Cultural Resources Department

Mountain Camp and Fish Camp

Mountain goats are not true goats but are a species of mountain-dwelling antelope

Mountain Goat

The Pilchuck River is a culturally and environmentally important watershed for salmon and other species

Pilchuck River Dam

The Qwuloolt Estuary restoration site is a former estuarine wetland in the Snohomish River Basin

Qwuloolt Birds

The Tulalip Tribes along with its partners at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the City of Marysville

Qwuloolt Monitoring

The Qwuloolt Estuary is located within the Snohomish River floodplain

Qwuloolt Restoration

The Tulalip Tribes’ Restoration, Acquisition and Stewardship Program protects and restores Tulalip Treaty Retained Resources

Restoration, Acquisition and Stewardship Program

The Restoration, Acquisition and Stewardship Program works both on and off the reservation

Riparian Restoration

Climate change is now exacerbating degradation and threatening habitat at every stage of the salmon life cycle

Salmon and Climate Change

Tulalip Tribes vision is the restoration of wild salmon production to levels that will support fishing needs

Salmon Hatchery

Shellfish - treaty rights, biological assessment and monitoring, and private tideland implementation

Shellfish

Shrimp species primarily targeted around the Tulalip area are the species commonly known as Spot Prawns or Spot Shrimp

Shrimp

Small Streams - hundreds of small coastal streams drain directly into the Puget Sound

Small Streams

Smolt Traps - The Tulalip Tribes (TTT) trapping project has been classified on a multi-agency basis as a project of high priority

Smolt Traps

Snohomish Estuary - estuary provides an important nursery habitat for many juvenile fish and is particularly important for juvenile Chinook

Snohomish Estuary

The Tulalip Tribes conducts spawning ground surveys for Chinook and Coho salmon in the rivers and tributaries of the Snohomish River Basin

Spawner Surveys

Tulalip Stock Assessment Laboratory (TSAL) is to collect and analyze stock assessment samples and data

Stock Assessment

Preventing pollution is a critical part of Tulalip’s stormwater program

Stormwater

The Tualco Valley lies at the heart of the Snohomish River Basin, where the Skykomish and Snoqualmie Rivers meet

Tualco Valley Connectivity

Natural Resources Department’s wetland biologists have spent considerable time restoring or enhancing wetlands

Wetlands

The Wildlife Program of the Natural Resources Department manages for healthy and sustainable wildlife populations

Wildlife

Tulalip Natural Resources Department line art image of forest or wetland area