Salmon

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens severed prime habitat for salmon and steelhead. Now, for the first time in over forty years, local tribes have successfully restored river connectivity.

From the removal of fish migration barriers in Washington to the decades-long community effort to revive Seattle’s Duwamish River, our most-read stories of 2026, so far, celebrate ecological recovery across the bioregion.

A half-century ago, the Indigenous Tsimshian village of Metlakatla, in Southeast Alaska, preserved its reservation when others in Alaska were terminated. Today, the reserve sustains a thriving fishing industry — and the tribe is fighting in court to expand its territory.