Big Beef Creek Field Station in Pictures & in the News
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Salmon, ESA and Summer Chum Recovery News in Kitsap County
- Shoreline rules face objections
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, November 30, 2000. Wednesday's new statewide guidelines probably will not have much effect on Kitsap County, Commissioner Tim Botkin says.
- Salmon run endangers development
By Lloyd Pritchett, Bremerton Sun, November 27, 2000. Plans for a hotel, restaurant and animal hospital near Clear Creek must be reconsidered because they could threaten endangered chinook.
- Getting Duped
Letter to the Editor by Donald Burger, Bremerton Sun, November 13, 2000. The tribes are once again duping the staff writers for The Sun, as well as placating the general public.
- Politics reflects split on salmon
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, October 23, 2000. Some candidates feel the county is moving too fast; others think it's the smart way to go.
- Hundreds rally for property rights
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, October 22, 2000. Property owners are urged to fight back against salmon rules seen as a power grab.
- Feds spell out rules for salmon
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, September 26, 2000. Local governments are given guidance to help in dealing with federal rules.
- Salmon rules: Meetings end with questions remaining
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, September 19, 2000. Possible changes to shorelines rules should soon emerge now that workshops are over.
- Salmon: Environmentalists sue over rules
Associated Press, Bremerton Sun, September 13, 2000. Several environmental and fishing groups sued the federal government Tuesday, trying to force officials to strengthen rules intended to protect Northwest and California wild salmon runs from extinction.
- Balance sought for property rights
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, August 30, 2000. Discussions continue with federal officials over issues. Bob Turner of the National Marine Fisheries Service sympathized with the Kitsap County commissioners in their effort to balance salmon with property rights.
- Owners: 'Why is the onus on us?
By Sean L. McCarthy, Bremerton Sun, August 24, 2000. Keyport area residents confronted with plans to limit development say if there are too few fish, take the line out of the water.
- Meetings swamped with questions
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, August 23, 2000. County workshops seeking suggestions for shoreline management have drawn more than 700 property owners.
- Salmon--Which Local Stream do Fish Prefer?
By Ed Friedrich, Bremerton Sun, July 20, 2000. Kitsap County received a ranking of its salmon streams, but the report didn`t come with an owner`s manual. The hardest job will be figuring out how to use it.
- Kitsap Peninsula Salmonid Refugia Study, July 2000
- State, tribes issue salmon plan
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, May 17, 2000. State and tribal salmon experts Tuesday released a 407-page blueprint for saving Hood Canal's summer chum from extinction.
- Summer Chum Salmon Conservation Initiative: An Implementation Plan to Recover Summer Chum in the Hood Canal and Strait of Juan de Fuca Region published, May 2000
- Kitsap County Salmon Habitat Protection Plan Preliminary Draft released, April 2000
- Kitsap Salmon Forum/4(d) exemption process
- Time to stop netting
Letter to the Editor by Fred Depee, Bremerton Sun, September 30, 1999.
- Big Beef Creek: Reviving a salmon run
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, July 8, 1999. A restored spawning channel will create a nursery for threatened summer chum.
- Salmon on the brink
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, March 16, 1999. As dusk descended on Big Beef Creek on Tuesday, a group of state and federal biologists were sending off 60,000 baby salmon to live in the vast Pacific Ocean.
- Hood Canal Summer-Run ESU Listed Threatened by NMFS, March 1999
Other News
- The eagles have landed
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, July 4, 2000. Bald eagles found fish snacks Sunday at Big Beef Creek in Seabeck.
- Eagles gather at Seabeck
By Christopher Dunagan, Bremerton Sun, June 27, 2000. Like party-goers standing at a buffet table, an unusually large crowd of bald eagles has been hanging out near the tideflats at Big Beef Creek near Seabeck.
- UW Collaborates with tribe, school district in "STEP"
By Steve Hill, University Week, July 6, 2000
- State says Skokomish Tribe illegally dumped clams
by The Associated Press, Seattle Times, March 28, 2000. State says Skokomish Tribe illegally dumped nearly 70,000 pounds of geoducks during the tribe`s 1999 harvest, state fisheries officials say.
- Tribe Dumped Geoducks
By Ray Miller, Bremerton Sun, March 26, 2000. Enforcement procedures are under review after 70,000 pounds of clams are found discarded in Hood Canal.
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