Salmon

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.

A Q&A with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book on the multigenerational effort towards dam removal.

The over 47,000 acres of ancestral lands double Yurok’s land holdings and includes the Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary.