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September 16, 2026

British Columbia’s Kaska Nation wants to protect a wilderness area larger than Denali National Park, which brings both promise and challenge to the future of Indigenous-led conservation.

September 10, 2026

The burgeoning cruise ship industry’s presence has its critics, who view it as community-altering and unsustainable, while others welcome its jobs and revenue.

September 3, 2026

More than two dozen Pacific salmonid populations are listed as threatened or endangered. One could soon make history as the first to be recovered.

August 27, 2026

A glaciologist turns to the Pacific Northwest’s disappearance of ice and the coming of fire.

August 19, 2026

Why Tribes, First Nations, and scientists all want to remove Washington’s Enloe Dam.

August 14, 2026

A collaborative effort among tribes, irrigators, and environmental groups to untangle conflicts over water use offers a path to success for river restoration and local economies.

August 4, 2026

In 2018, Portland, Oregon, passed a bill to corporations working in the city to pay a surcharge for climate justice initiatives. The fund quickly turned into billions. Here’s how it’s going, eight years on.

July 30, 2026

The winter diet of endangered orcas has long been a mystery, but emerging studies now offer clues into what’s sustaining them—one fish scale at a time.

July 28, 2026

When language meets landscape, it’s more than relationship. It’s kinship.

July 21, 2026

How Alaska’s expanding peony flower economy is adapting to an unstable climate.

July 20, 2026

As Native students seek careers in conservation and Indigenous-led stewardship, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has partnered with University of Washington to create a solution.

July 15, 2026

In Central Oregon, a new river restoration technique to repair habitat for salmon is creating an added benefit: wildfire refugia.

July 7, 2026

Despite the ongoing, decades-long debate on whether to bring grizzly bears back to California, tribes are taking the lead, and it’s changing the discourse.

July 1, 2026

Why acknowledging the land itself — along with the people whose language, culture, and religion were born of it — is rarely acknowledged. 

June 22, 2026

A movement of cooperative oyster farming is growing in Southeast Alaska and producing some of the world’s best oysters.

June 15, 2026

When language flows from a place of knowing.

June 9, 2026

On Oregon’s North Coast, a strategic effort to remove nearly a hundred river barriers builds resiliency for fish and people.

June 2, 2026

How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.

May 31, 2026

While advocating for the Yakama Nation’s treaty-protected foods and practices, Harvey has become a leading voice for Indigenous sovereignty.

May 29, 2026

An excerpt from Following the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa’xaid, which describes Magic Canoe’s founding vision of Wa’xaid, or Cecil Paul. 

April 9, 2026

Magic Canoe was on the ground for one of the largest ecocultural events of the year in Salmon Nation, which brought thousands of changemakers and creatives together last month in Berkeley, California. Here’s what we found.

March 31, 2026

Five “tombolo” poems from the shifting lands of the in-between.

March 25, 2026

We’re hiring four exceptional writers to cover the following desks: Salmon, Environment, New Economies, & Indigenous Leadership.

March 11, 2026

How one of the largest cities in Salmon Nation has restored the Duwamish River over the past three decades — community-first and one mucky step at a time.

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