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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.

By: Tara Lohan

For your summer adventures, here are our favorite audio experiences that will inspire, inform, and activate systems change in the bioregion.

By: Magic Canoe

Beyond Ecological Grief is a six-part podcast, based in Salmon Nation, investigating the emotional realities of living through a planetary health crisis.

By: Magic Canoe

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.

By: Cowlitz Indian Tribe

Nupqu distributes 700,000 seedlings a year to land reclamation projects in their traditional territory.

By: Anna Dulisse

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.

By: Astra Lincoln

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.

By: Keili Bartlett

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

By: CMarie Fuhrman

In its first month on the market, ApiSave sold 10,000 “patties” to help honeybees fight disease and parasites.

By: Josh Kozelj

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

By: Paula Dobbyn

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.

By: Nicholas Triolo

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

By: Tara Lohan

Ellie Kinley of the Lummi Nation has devoted her life to protecting and honoring the abundance of the Salish Sea.

By: Ellie Kinley

A third of transit agencies in Washington State operate without collecting fares. Can free buses work elsewhere?

By: Josh Kozelj

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.

By: Cameron Fenton

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

By: CMarie Fuhrman

All the efforts to rewild a Northern California stream leads to salmon rewilding themselves.

By: Ben Goldfarb

The Gunners saw their dream evaporating. Until they turned a water crisis into a model for climate resilience.

By: Shauna MacKinnon

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

By: Paula Dobbyn

How the Suquamish Tribe is finding ways to harvest, educate, and prepare for ongoing plant cycle alternations due to climate change.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America

A new report links data centers with a strong push for natural gas.

By: Audrey Leonard

Six First Nations, BC and Canada will preserve and steward a large chunk of the Central Coast. That means no pipelines.

By: Michelle Gamage

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

By: Tara Lohan

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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