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	Skokomish (tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Skokomish is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States.
		The Skokomish or Twana language belongs to the Salishan family of Native American languages.
		A sampling of the collection of Skokomish baskets and other cultural artifacts are available at the Burke Museum, on-line exhibit, located at http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ethnology/collections/index.php.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skokomish_(tribe) (343 words)

	CWIS - The Fourth World Journal - Reinterpreting Europe through the Eyes of Catalunya - A Review by Rudolph C. Rÿser
		The Skokomish River is the largest tributary, in terms of volume, in the Hood Canal Basin of Puget Sound in western Washington state.
		The North Fork of the Skokomish River is thirty-four miles in length, and the South Fork is twenty-eight.
		Because the North Fork of the Skokomish River was the most important salmon and steelhead-producing stream on the Hood Canal the Tribe, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and state fisheries agencies opposed the project (Skokomish Indian Tribe, Cushman Project, 1993a).
	www.cwis.org /fwj/41/jbsalmo.html (7257 words)

	Governors Office of Indian Affairs
		The Skokomish Indian Reservation, encompassing a total of almost 5,000 acres, is located on the delta of the Skokomish River where it empties into what is called the Great Bend of the Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
		Located in a rural area of northern Mason County on the Olympic Peninsula, the Skokomish Indian Reservation is surrounded on the south by the Skokomish River and on the east by the Hood Canal.
		The Skokomish Indian Reservation, due to its location and geological features in primarily a rural area of the Olympic Peninsula, is significantly vulnerable and has been drastically impacted by the damaging effects of major natural and man-made hazards.
	www.goia.wa.gov /Tribal-Information/Tribes/skokomish.htm (1015 words)

	Skokomish River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Skokomish River is a river in Washington, United States.
		Lake Cushman and Lake Kokanee are maintained by Cushman Dam No. 1 and Cushman Dam No. 2 respectively on the Skokomish River.
		Like most Pacific Northwest rivers, it was named after the people who owned it, whose name derives from the Salishan words skokom + ish = "brave" + "people" or "strong" + "people".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skokomish_River (132 words)

	S.P.I.P.A
		The Skokomish River empties into what is called the Great Bend of the Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula in Mason County, Washington.
		The Skokomish Indian Tribe provides a comprehensive array of community-based governmental and community services to a population of over 1,395 Skokomish Tribal members, their families, and other Native American and non-Native community members who maintain a close and continuing association economically, socially and culturally with the Skokomish Community.
		The Skokomish were one of nine separate groups brought together by a common territory, similar cultures, and the Twana language.
	www.spipa.org /skokomish.shtml (353 words)

	Skokomish Tribal Nation: Culture and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What is now known as the Skokomish Tribe actually was primarily composed of Twana Indians, a Salishan people whose aboriginal territory encompassed the Hood Canal drainage basin in western Washington State.
		There were nine Twana communities, the largest being known as the Skokomish, or "big river people." The Twana subsisted on hunting, fishing and gathering activities, practicing a nomadic life-style during warmer weather and resettling at permanent sites during the winter.
		Sometime around 1900, a tycoon from Tacoma acquired the land between the west channel and main channel in the mouth of the Skokomish River.
	hood.hctc.com /~skok1/historyculture.htm (394 words)

	Court Ruling Opens Door to Restore Water to the North Fork Skokomish River for the First Time in Decades 24-Aug-06
		American Rivers, an intervenor in the case, called the ruling a victory for the public and for the river’s health.
		The ruling reflects a new era of river management emerging in the Northwest and across the country, one that provides a better balance in how we use rivers, and recognizes that a healthy river is a real community asset.
		American Rivers is a national non-profit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish and wildlife.
	www.waterchat.com /News/Environment/06/Q3/env_060824-01.htm (587 words)

	NWIFC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SKOKOMISH (January 6, 2004) — Property along the Skokomish River that is susceptible to flooding and unsuitable for development might not seem all that valuable, but for salmon it’s prized.
		In an attempt to preserve that important salmon spawning and rearing habitat, the Skokomish Tribe has purchased about 175 acres of floodplain and wetlands along the lower Skokomish River.
		The Skokomish Tribe is still in the market for land along the Skokomish River and throughout the watershed.
	www.nwifc.wa.gov /newsinfo/newsrelease.asp?ID=198 (588 words)

	NWIFC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the Skokomish River farmers diked off much the estuary in the mid 20th-century, cutting off its natural functions.
		The north fork is generally considered the main river and drains a large section of Olympic National Park.
		·The river’s estuary is one of the largest in Washington at 2,500 acres of varied wetlands, including saltwater marshes, forested and seasonal wetlands.
	www.nwifc.wa.gov /newsinfo/newsrelease.asp?ID=37 (706 words)

	The Skokomish River floods
		The Skokomish is not that big a river (7th largest entering Puget Sound in terms of discharge rate; 8th in drainage area), and there are two dams on the North Fork.
		Rainfall is high, with annual precipitation ranging from 200 to 220 inches on the Olympic crest in the upper watershed, to 80 to 90 inches in the Skokomish Valley, and 75 to 80 inches at the river's mouth.
		The soils of the Skokomish basin have high potential for erosion due to slope steepness and heavy rainfall, and are easily disturbed by clearcut logging and roadbuilding.
	www.getlostmagazine.com /features/1999/9906skok/skok.html (1609 words)

	WDFW - Sockeye Salmon: River Sockeye in Puget Sound
		However, they appear to be genetically similar to known sockeye populations in British Columbia, Alaska, and Russia that use off-channel river habitat (river type) or marine waters (sea type) instead of lakes for juvenile rearing.
		River sockeye have also been observed in coastal river systems but the genetics of these fish is unknown.
		It is possible that Puget Sound river sockeye are part of one wide ranging west coast population.
	wdfw.wa.gov /fish/sockeye/riverpuget.htm (383 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The present North Fork of the Skokomish River.
		L.M. Holt, Supervisor of Irrigation for the United States Indian Office, in his official report on the proposal, described the Skokomish protest at the destruction of their fishing grounds as well as at the safety hazard of a dam upstream from their reservation.
		September 1920 The City of Tacoma sued in a state court to condemn rights to easements and land for a power line across the Skokomish Reservation and to condemn riparian water rights from reservation lands in connection with its proposed diversion of the North Fork Skokomish River.
	www.ecotrust.org /wianbeta/skokomish/cushman_text.html (632 words)

	Village Descriptions--Skokomish-Bremerton
		On N Fork Skokomish River 1/2 mile below the falls (2 to 3 miles below the present upper dam) on E bank in a small flat.
		At the former (pre-dam) lower end of Lake Cushman near the outlet of the N Fork Skokomish River, probably not far from the present State Park.
		On the beach near the mouth of the Dosewallips River at the present town of Brinnon.
	coastsalishmap.org /Village_Descriptions_Skokomish-Bremerton.htm (2355 words)

	If it's winter, the Skokomish River must be flooding
		With a constancy that would impress the swallows at San Juan Capistrano, the Skokomish River seems to flood each year at the first sign of Western Washington's rainy season.
		That probably occurred in part because capacity was maintained by human interventions, including gravel mining in the river from 1932 to 1934 for the construction of U.S. 101 nearby, and work to clear logging debris from the channel in the early 1940s.
		However, erosion from areas adjacent to the Skokomish headwaters in the Olympic Mountains began to deposit sediment in the riverbed, Montgomery said.
	www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2002archive/01-02archive/k010702.html (670 words)

	Skokomish Tribal Code, Environmental Protection Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This Act is adopted to protect the environment under the jurisdiction of the Skokomish Indian Tribe for the enjoyment and use of present and future generations of Skokomish tribal community members.
		The appeal shall be heard by the Skokomish Tribal Court under the Rules of Appellate Procedure of the Rules of the Skokomish Tribal Court (S.T.C. 3.01.100 through 3.01.115).
		The employees and appointees of the Skokomish Indian Tribe, the members of the Skokomish Tribal Council, and the personnel of the Skokomish Tribal Court are cloaked with the sovereign immunity of the Skokomish Indian Tribe.
	www.narf.org /nill/Codes/skocode/skokomish603enviro.htm (5747 words)

	Skokomish Natural Resources Department
		The Skokomish Natural Resources Department, is responsible for development and implementation of the Tribe's water quality, environmental health, hazardous waste, habitat protection and enhancement programs for salmon-bearing streams and wetlands, among other as-needed and requested duties for the tribal community.
		Big Quilcene River: The Tribe continues to develop a floodplain assessment as well as a number of (LWD) large woody debris projects on the Big Quilcene River, downstream of the USFW Fish Hatchery.
		Nalley Ranch: The Department is implementing the removal of dikes, levees and parts of seawalls in the Nalley Ranch area, near the Skokomish River mouth and estuary for late summer, 2004.
	www.hctc.com /~skok1/naturalresources.htm (792 words)

	kitsapsun.com: Local
		The dream of restoring the Skokomish River estuary to a more natural condition could soon be realized now that almost $1 million is available for the massive project.
		The Skokomish is the only river in Hood Canal that supports all fish listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act: Puget Sound chinook, Hood Canal summer chum and coastal Puget Sound bull trout.
		The Skokomish project is one of nine projects able to meet an early-action deadline for funding this year.
	www.kitsapsun.com /bsun/local/article/0,2403,BSUN_19088_4863189,00.html (512 words)

	Skokomish.htm
		_________________________________________________________________ OPINION HAWKINS, Circuit Judge: The Skokomish Indian Tribe ("the Tribe") appeals a deci- sion of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") denying the Tribe's application for a preliminary permit to develop a hydropower facility on the North Fork of the Sko- komish River in Mason County, Washington.
		Skokomish Indian Tribe, 71 F.E.R.C. P 61,023 (Apr. 6, 1995), 1995 WL 148316, at 2, reh'g denied, Skokomish* Indian Tribe, 72 F.E.R.C. P 61,268 (Sept. 20, 1995), 1995 WL 556539.
		At issue in the relicensing proceeding is whether some of these flows should no longer be diverted for their current use, but should instead be discharged into the stream.
	www.msaj.com /cases/Skokomish.htm (2479 words)

	Skokomish 2004 Summer/Fall Chinook Salmon Regulation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Set net lengths or position must be adjusted to conform with this provision when tides and other conditions reduce the amount of water in the channel.
		No marine set nets may be operated closer than 1000 feet from any stream or river mouth that is not open to net fishing.
		These regulations are promulgated by the Skokomish Fish Committee and Adopted by the Skokomish Tribe Council under authority of the Skokomish On-reservation and Treaty Fishing Ordinance (section 7.02.025).
	www.skokomish.org /ChinookReg04.htm (363 words)

	Environment - #17 Aug/Sep 95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But the Skokomish Tribe has lived with the project's effects for several generations and opposes its licensing because of harm to the watershed and local residents.
		Their reservation was placed at the mouth of the Skokomish River on Hood Canal because of the Skokomish's dependence on the river for their cultural, spiritual, and economic life.
		The diversion has reduced the mainstem Skokomish River flow by 40 percent, decreasing the supply of fresh water, sediment, and nutrient inflow to the salmon and shellfish of the estuary.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /17/Enviro.html (1504 words)

	Skokomish Indian Tribe
		The aboriginal name of the Skokomish tribal members was Twana, which referred to a larger population that lived in the Hood Canal drainage before contact with Europeans and the creation of the reservation.
		The Skokomish River and Hood Canal area was a source of subsistence foods, which included salmon, steelhead, other finned species and shellfish.
		The Skokomish Indian Reservation was established by the Point-No-Point Treaty on January 26, 1855.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1568.html (698 words)

	The Preliminary Assessment and Corrective Action (PACA) Plan
		The Skokomish River is the largest contributor of freshwater to Hood Canal, which influences surface salinity; temperature and surface flow in the canal.
		Note: An ongoing lawsuit between the Skokomish Tribe and the Tacoma Public Utilities over various aspects of the dam and release of water to the river, could affect dissolved oxygen by changing the water storage, river flow and mixing regimes of the lower Hood Canal.
		The overall harm from the frequent flooding is that the water transports a great deal of sediment and nutrients from the floodplain to the Hood Canal.
	www.psat.wa.gov /Publications/PACA_html/paca_Hydraulic.htm (1266 words)

	Camping Location - South Fork Skokomish River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is a shame that people have such little regard, not only for their surroundings but also for the ability of others to enjoy the area.
		Due to the heavy crowds, fishing is almost nonexistent in the river.
		Follow this road along the Skokomish River for about 5 1/2 miles at which point you will see a sign to Browns Creek and the road veers to the right.
	home.comcast.net /~rasta109/SouthForkSkokomishRiver.htm (389 words)

	Skokomish: Value of a River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Skokomish river was once the largest and most productive salmon river in Puget Sound.
		In 1930, despite the opposition of the Skokomish Tribe, the City of Tacoma built two dams on the North Fork of the river, and diverted the flow into a pipe to drive a hydropower plant.
		This model enables users to evaluate the economic and ecological effects of alternative management scenarios for the Skokomish river.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lansing/skokomish/skokintro.htm (170 words)

	Skokomish Tribe buys Hood Canal marshland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SKOKOMISH, Wash. - The Skokomish Tribe has purchased 165 acres of marshland at the mouth of the lower Skokomish River on Hood Canal, but officials say they won't interfere with a local hay grower.
		The frequently flooded land was bought from a trust managed on behalf of the Bourgault family, which moved to the Skokomish Valley in 1939, with $195,000 in federal funds from the Coastal Salmon Recovery Program.
		Dublanica said a stewardship plan will be developed for the property, which also includes two tributaries of the Skokomish, Weaver and Purdy creeks.
	www.citizenreviewonline.org /jan2004/skokomish.htm (313 words)

	Wildernet - North Fork Skokomish - 1
		The North Fork Skokomish Trail leaves the river climbing a few hundred feet and reaches the Flapjack Lakes Trail within a mile and a half.
		The North Fork Skokomish River Trail leads northward from this junction along the western bank of the river.
		It reaches the head of North Fork Skokomish River in a quarter mile and climbs beyond it to North Pass on First Divide.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/activity.cfm?actid=WANPSOLMPIO*53171hw (926 words)

	Skokomish River is the place for kings - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Skokomish River is hot for kings, averaging 18-20 pounds, with some larger.
		Anglers are catching fish from Purdy Creek to the mouth during early morning hours, with the hottest section of the river being from the state Route 106 bridge downriver.
		The river is very clear and lower than it has been all summer.
	www.theolympian.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/OUTDOORS0202/508250386/-1/OUTDOORS (2203 words)

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		Federal, state and local resource agencies, along with the Skokomish Tribe, conservation groups such as American Rivers, Mountaineers, and Seattle Audubon Society, and religious organizations such as Washington Association of Churches and the Church Council of Greater Seattle all oppose Tacoma's license application to continue diverting the River.
		In partnership with resource agencies, conservation groups, and local residents, the Skokomish Tribe is completing a plan for healing the Skokomish River.
		Saving the Skokomish River depends on convincing the government that the public interest lies in returning the water to the River and restoring the watershed for everyone's benefit, rather than allowing the City of Tacoma, an hours drive away from the Skokomish River, to continue diverting its waters for their own profit.
	www.cwis.org /fwdp/Americas/skokrivr.txt (1001 words)

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