salmon

By Linda Weiford, WSU News PUYALLUP, Wash. – Chum rule. In the same toxic stormwater brew that killed coho salmon in less than three hours, their chum cousins did just fine.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – WSU Vancouver has received the Clark County Sammy Award for its contributions to protecting salmon, their habitat and area rivers.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers from Alaska and Washington state have found the earliest known evidence that Ice Age humans in North America used salmon as a food source, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  Salmon soup with wapato and cattail shoots  Ingredients:   12 wapato roots, camas or small new potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 6-8 cattail shoots or asparagus, trimmed of woody exterior and sliced 6 green onions, or 8-10 wild onions 4 cups of water 5 juniper berries 1 pound of salmon steak   […]

Stark Garden-variety pesticides add up to more than the sum of their parts when it comes to attacking the nervous systems of salmon, a newly published study finds.   Scientists at WSU and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service analyzed combinations of various pesticides to learn how they would affect juvenile salmon. Previous […]

EVERETT – A small group of dedicated adults and children are proving  that everyone can make a difference. In this case, the proving ground is a section of Mouse Creek in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Wilderness. WSU Snohomish County Extension 4-H will host restoration activities at Mouse Creek on Sauk Prairie Road near Darrington on Tuesday, […]

The success of local decision-making in salmon recovery in Washington will be the topic of a campuswide lecture by William D. Ruckelshaus, the first and fifth administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and current chairman of the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board. “There is a massive experiment in democracy going on in our state, […]