Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Quinault


Related Topics

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Philippe Quinault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philippe Quinault (June 3, 1635 – November 26, 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.
Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen.
Lully died in 1687, and Quinault, his occupation gone, became devout, and began a poem called the "Destruction of Heresy." He died on the 26th of November 1688 The best edition of his works is that of 1739 (Paris, 5 vols.).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippe_Quinault   (576 words)

  
 Shakeys Quinault fishing Guides Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I'm located on the Quinault Indian reservation, west coast of Washington State, on the Olympic peninsula, between the Pacific ocean and the Olympic mountains.
The rivers and streams of the Quinault reservation have always been known to be some of the best fisheries in the Pacific Northwest.
The Quinault and Queets rivers are two of the private waters available to anglers, as well as Salmon river, Raft River, and Cook Creek that make up the other secluded waters.
www.quinaultfisherking.com   (246 words)

  
 USGS - Quinault Indian Reservation - Project Summaries
For the Quinault Indian Nation of the southwestern Olympic Peninsula, forests and fisheries have been the cultural and economic mainstay for thousands of years.
To protect and restore these dwindling resources, the Quinault Indian Nation is undertaking a science-based approach for land management, in which understanding of ecologic conditions and functions is developed as a basis for steering land management activities in directions that promote societal values.
To assess the impacts of these human activities on the watershed, the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) is undertaking an interagency, collaborative watershed assessment of the entire Quinault River basin.
wa.water.usgs.gov /projects/quinault/summary.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Bear Bob's Guided Hunts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Reservation is approximately 200,000 acres and ranges from sea level to the foothills of the Olympic Mountains.
Quinault Reservation bear pelts are predominantly the fl color phase and are prized for their condtion.
The Quinault Indian Reservation has not been open to non-tribal hunters since the reservation was established in 1855.
www.quinaultbears.com /index.html   (269 words)

  
 Welcome to Quinault Rain Forest
Majestic glacier-carved and glacier-fed Lake Quinault is surrounded by the mossy old-growth trees of the Quinault Rain Forest, one of only three temperate coniferous rain forests in the Western hemisphere.
The Quinault Valley that creates Lake Quinault and the Quinault Rainforest is known as the "Valley of the Giants." Here you will find the largest Sitka Spruce tree in the world, along with other nationally recognized giants of Hemlock, Douglas Fir and the mighty Western Red Cedar.
Lake Quinault is located on the Southwest end of the Olympic National Park.
www.quinaultrainforest.com   (261 words)

  
 Lake Quinault's Rain Forest Resort Village
The Quinault Rain Forest, which is framed by Quinault Valley with ridges that rise over 3000 feet, is the back drop for the Resort.
We are one mile past the Lake Quinault Lodge on the South Shore of the Lake.
Quinault has become known as “ The Valley of the Rain Forest Giants” because of the number of record size tree found here.
www.rainforestresort.com   (645 words)

  
 Van Mechelen: History of the Quinault Reservation
In the course of time, and under the authority of the Executive Order, the residents and allotment holders of the Quinault Reservation came to include Indians of full or mixed ancestry from all tribes mentioned earlier, which is to say all tribes of coastal Washington and some from the interior, especially in the south.
The Quinault Reservation is unique in that it is one of the few reservations on which individuals are issued allotments.
The first allotments on the Quinault Reservation were made in 1905, with the granting of applications for the meager agricultural acreage that was available.
www.vanmechelen.net /quinres.html   (2946 words)

  
 Quinault National Fish Hatchery - Meet the Fish
In 1964 a study was conducted to examine the potential of a salmon hatchery on the Quinault Indian Reservation.
At the request of the Quinault Indian Nation over fifteen years ago Quinault NFH began rearing winter steelhead to be released into the Hoh River which is approximately seventy miles north of the hatchery.
To supplement adult fall Chinook salmon returns to the hatchery eggs were taken at Quinault Nation Penned Rearing facility on Lake Quinault, fertilized, and reared at the Lake until release.
www.fws.gov /quinaultnfh/Meetthefish.html   (601 words)

  
 Quinault Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Quinault Nation is a tribe in the northwest that feels that the management of the salmon has been looked at as a resource that must be used to its greatest potential.
In their plight to gain more of a voice in the role of creating resource management, they feel that they must be heard and their plan be adopted by the rest of the agencies involved in all levels of management for the salmon population to regain strength.
The Quinault's plan includes localizing control of harvesting management and sharing pricipals that would spread the harvest out more equally to the indians and then to non-indian people elsewhere.
www.indigenouspeople.net /quinaul.htm   (674 words)

  
 Quinault Indian Nation
The word Quinault evolved from kwi'nail, the name of the tribe's largest settlement once situated at present-day Taholah, at the mouth of the Quinault River.
Although the Quinault were initially friendly and helped their new white neighbors, increasing numbers of pioneers arrived with their radically different ways, which created friction.
In a compromise with the Quinaults and Queets tribes, the commission leveled a judgment against the United States of $205,172.40 on June 25, 1962.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1566.html   (728 words)

  
 Governors Office of Indian Affairs
The Quinault people were isolated from the whites until the first recording on July 13, 1775 when they visited a Spaniard vessel Sanora in their canoes.
The Quinaults signed the same treaty as did the Quileutes on January 25, 1856.
The commission in a compromise with the Quinaults and Queets tribe ordered a judgement against the United States of $205,172.40 on June 25, 1962.
www.goia.wa.gov /Tribal-Information/Tribes/quinault.htm   (242 words)

  
 ICT [2000/06/07]  Cowlitz federal recognition temporarily blocked by Quinault
In the appeal, the Quinault state that Cowlitz members petitioning for recognition are not descended from the same group that participated in treaty proceedings with Gov. Isaac Stevens in 1855.
Information from the tribe states the Quinault believe the current Cowlitz petitioners are composed of descendants of Hudson Bay Co. employees and Cowlitz and non-Cowlitz Indian women who settled on the Cowlitz Prairie, not descendants of the original Lower Cowlitz tribe.
Soon the Quinault Nation will be facing a two-pronged threat - final determination for federal recognition for the Chinook Tribe is scheduled for next month, and the Chinook, like the Cowlitz, are seeking recognition and substantiation of their treaty rights in the Quinault Reservation.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=811   (1560 words)

  
 Quinault Canoe Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1989, tribes revived the canoe Journey for the celebration of the Washington State Centennial accord.
The Quinault Indian Nation, as well as other tribes are working to heighten the awareness of native people and their culture by continuing the revival effort of 1989.
The first known potlatch among the Quinault people was around 1800.
www.quinaultmayee.com /index.html   (231 words)

  
 Tribal Energy Program - FY2004 Projects - Quinault Indian Nation: Project Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) will conduct a 24-month comprehensive assessment and economic analysis of their renewable energy resources, including wind, biomass, solar, and wave energy, along with a comprehensive assessment of tribal energy requirements, and the feasibility of forming a tribal utility.
The Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) will conduct a comprehensive feasibility study that results in the determination that renewable energy development on our tribal lands is not only possible, but also sustainable and is in compliance with our QIN Strategic Planning criteria.
The Quinault Indian Reservation (QIR) contains 208,105 acres of land in a single, triangular block located in the southwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington and includes the villages of Taholah, Queets, and Amanda Park.
www.eere.energy.gov /tribalenergy/projects/fy04_quinault.html   (790 words)

  
 [No title]
Geographic Area subject to Agreement The lands subject to this agreement are those within the exterior boundaries of the Quinault Indian Reservation, and the adjacent portions of Jefferson County and Grays Harbor Counties.
It is not intended, nor should it be construed, as a concession by the Quinault Nation or the Counties, that the other Party or Parties to this Agreement possess regulatory jurisdiction over fee land, or as a waiver of any argument with respect to jurisdiction in the event of a dispute among the parties.
The Counties further agree that the Quinault Indian Nation shall be granted a right of first refusal with respect to the acquisition of County owned real property located within the Quinault Indian Reservation which is determined by the Counties to be surplus to the Counties' needs.
www.halcyon.com /pub/FWDP/Americas/qinmou93.txt   (4657 words)

  
 GORP - Olympic National Forest - Washington - Quinault Valley
Clubmoss draped in long tendrils from the branches of big leaf maples, diffuse light shimmering through a high canopy of evergreens, and an emerald carpet of mosses, ferns, lichens and tiny plants, all characterize the Olympic rain forest.
The Quinault Valley is one of three major drainages on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula that offers excellent opportunities to see the unique rain forest environment.
Lake Quinault, crystal clear streams, cascading waterfalls, a cedar swamp, trees standing on stilts, and rain forest vegetation are visible along the route.
gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_forest/wa/qui_olym.htm   (698 words)

  
 Quinault Indian Nation
The Quinault Indian Nation is a very sacred part of the identity at Quinault Beach Resort and Casino; we are proud to be an enterprise of the Nation.
The Quinault Indian Nation is comprised of over 1,300 members of the Quinault, Queets, Hoh, Quilieute, Chehalis, Cowlitz, and Chinook tribes.
The Quinault Indian Reservation is a must-see to gain a true Washington State experience from those who were here first.
www.quinaultbeachresort.com /quinault-nation.html   (207 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Philippe Quinault (June 3, 1635 - November 26, 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris on the 3rd of June 1635.
He was educated by the liberality of Tristan 1'Hermite, the author of Mariamne.
Then he tried tragedies (Agrippa, etc.) with more success than desert.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/p/ph/philippe_quinault.html   (532 words)

  
 Olympic NP: Quinault Graves Creek Road Repair EA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Tourism to the rainforest of the Quinault Valley and overnight camping/lodging are important economic factors for the Lake Quinault Community (B. Miller and K. Daniels, personal communication).
The vegetation communities in the vicinity of the Proposed Action and along the Graves Creek Road are typical of communities throughout the Quinault Valley and throughout ONP in general.
The first Euroamericans in the Upper Quinault Valley practiced subsistence farming and grazing and had occupied most of the suitable bottomlands as far upstream as the confluence of the North and East Forks.
www.nps.gov /olym/ea/gravescreek/sec4.htm   (13711 words)

  
 Quinault on the South Shore Road
Quinault, Washington, in the northwest corner of the state sits amidst the Quinault Rain Forest on the South Shore Road near Lake Quinault off coastal Highway 101.
This little hamlet beckons tourists who come in droves to the vintage 1926 Lake Quinault Lodge, http://www.visitlakequinault.com/", which once hosted President Franklin Roosevelt, or the Quinault Rain Forest Resort Village recently featured at http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/wash...
We left our Resort Village cabin and trekked past the Quinault Rain Forest Village RV Park where the Largest Sitka Spruce in the World resides.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3983/110753   (493 words)

  
 [No title]
The Quinault Indian Nation signed a treaty with the United States, known as the Treaty, of Olympia where the Quinault Indian Nation ceded several million acres of its former homeland in return for a promise that the United States would set aside a reserved territory for the exclusive use and occupation of Quinault People.
The Quinault leaders, with support from local people and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, were able to stop the allotment process, and attempted to get the remainder of reserved lands in a Forest reserve for Quinault People.
Again, the Quinault Indian Nation was on the cutting edge of this new and developing legislation.
www.senate.gov /~scia/1998hrgs/0407_jd.htm   (2396 words)

  
 Welcome to Quinault NFH
Welcome to Quinault National Fish Hatchery: The Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula and the Future of Salmon.
Quinault National Fish Hatchery is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service facility located on the Quinault Indian Reservation which is approximately forty-five miles northwest of Aberdeen, Washington (Driving Directions).
This hatchery is one of the few fish hatcheries in the pacific northwest rearing four species of fish; coho salmon, fall Chinook salmon, chum salmon, and winter steelhead.
www.fws.gov /quinaultnfh/index.html   (210 words)

  
 Quinualt Langauge - Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For instance, English has several of the special letters used in the traditional Quinault spelling are not available on a regular keyboard and cannot appear on a website unless you use some special programs.
To avoid such technical problems, we have slightly adjusted the traditional Quinault alphabet to be used on this website so that it can be typed on a regular keyboard or printed out with no problems no matter what kind of computer you are using for it.
As you remember, Quinault already used a capital letter ("W") as a special symbol.
www.taholah.k12.wa.us /Taholah_Web/ourschool/dictionary/alphabet.HTM   (175 words)

  
 The Flag of the Cherokee of Oklahoma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Quinault people occupy a reservation of nearly 130,000 acres along the Pacific
The Quinault people, like most of the Coastal Salish have been residents of the
To accomplish this, the Quinault and others built enormous canoes.
users.aol.com /Donh523/navapage/quinault.htm   (305 words)

  
 Influential Quinault leader remembered by mourners
About 200 relatives walked ahead of the casket, which was shepherded by 20 Quinault men who carried rattles wrapped in cedar and sang a soft dirge.
This was a state funeral -- Quinault style -- and it was held Saturday for DeLaCruz, one of the most influential Native American leaders of the last 30 years.
But in 1971, when he was elected chairman of the Quinault, he was the youngest tribal chairman in the country.
www.oregonlive.com /news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/04/lc_12nativ23.frame   (778 words)

  
 Quinault Rain Forest
The Quinault Rain Forest Loop Drive is a 31 mile loop around Lake Quinault, up the Quinault River into the Olympic National Park, and back around the other side.
It is a great way to experience the Quinault Rain Forest by car and mountain bike.
You gain many views of the surrounding mountains, giant tress and the Quinault River.
www.quinaultrainforest.com /pages/loopdrive.html   (125 words)

  
 Lake Quinault
Lake Quinault is found on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
Unsurpassed beauty of Quinault should not be missed.
Plan to be awe inspired, Mother Nature's gardens are truly magnificent, this is where she got her green thumb.
rainforestgetaways.com /html/lake_quinault.html   (143 words)

  
 Quinault Fishing Guide Service - Come Fly fishing with us!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Learn what areas are great for what kind of fish, how to choose the correct fly for the current conditions and proper casting techniques.
The Quinault Rain Forest is one of the most beautiful locations on Earth.
From the Col. Bob Wilderness Area to the ocean beaches, you will be amazed by the variety of wildlife and other spectacular sights.
rainforestguide.net   (196 words)

  
 Washington Quinault - Home
Located on the south shore of Lake Quinault in the Olympic National Forest, the cabin has an unobstructed view and access to the lake.
Rainforest trails, the Ranger Station, Lake Quinault Lodge, the Quinault Mercantile, and Post Office are a short walk away.
The lake is owned by the Quinault Nation; boating is limited to small motor boats and people-powered boats.
www.vrbo.com /65331   (488 words)

  
 The Rain Forest Resort Village at Lake Quinault
Some of the most spectacular scenery in the northwest corner of Washington State is at the Hoh Rainforest, but there's another treat at the Quinault Rainforest, not far away.
When I previously wrote about the Hoh and Quinault Rainforest a few years ago I really didn't cover much of the Quinault area because it has been a long time since I've been there and I could not give an accurate view.
I could go on and on, but (the) big attraction is the (Quinault) Rainforest and all that comes with it.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/washington_state/107060   (531 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.