2024 Hunting and Fishing (Treaty Rights, Subsistence) News Stories
Record numbers of steelhead return to the Deschutes River, heralding progress in long-term fish reintroduction effort (Native News Online) 11/7/2024
Massive WA salmon recovery plan scrutinized with latest $100M project (The Seattle Times) 10/27/2024
Yurok Tribe receives $18M for restoration, resumes revegetation work on undammed Klamath River (Native News Online) 10/12/2024
Unkechaug Indian Nation says pre-U.S. Constitution treaty grants Tribe immunity to harvest glass eels (Courthouse News Service) 9/18/2024
Despite federal dams, Columbia and Snake River Tribes fight to keep fishing traditions alive (Oregon Capital Chronicle) 9/3/2024
US promises $240 million to improve fish hatcheries, protect tribal rights in Pacific Northwest (ABC News) 7/25/2024
Tribal agreement allows hunting and fishing across reservations (Native News Online) 7/14/2024
Department of Interior rejects Ambler access project in Alaska (Native News Online) 7/1/2024
Ship traffic in Bering Strait a threat to Native Alaskan subsistence hunting (Voice of America) 6/29/2024
Federal leaders knew Northwest dams would hurt Native communities — and they approved (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 6/21/2024
This year’s Cowlitz first salmon ceremony is about future generations (ICT) 6/7/2024
Spring on Alaska’s Unuk River shouldn’t mean fighting for our way of life (High Country News) 5/29/2024
Wyoming, Tribal impasse over hunting rights persists despite judicial order (WyoFile) 5/24/2024
WA Supreme Court reverses century-old Yakama decision: ‘An injustice’ (Seattle Times) 5/16/2024
The Boldt Decision and where the rule of law held (High Country News) 5/1/2024
Sault Tribe challenges Michigan fishing deal, chides ‘preposterous’ rules (Great Lakes Now) 4/4/2024
Wyoming can no longer use a 30-year-old case to prosecute Tribal hunters, judge finds (Courthouse News Service) 3/28/2024
Great Lakes Fishing Decree: a new era of commercial fishing (National Fisherman) 3/21/2024
A return after seven decades: Inside the Yakama Nation’s elk hunt on the Hanford Reach (Northwest Public Broadcasting) 3/21/2024
‘Salmon Wars’ episode 3: The court battles [podcast] (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 3/20/2024
Northwest Tribes, Washington and Oregon sign Columbia River salmon agreement at the White House (The Spokesman-Review) 2/23/2024
The 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision is a celebration of Native leadership (ICT) 2/22/2024
Book review: The dramatic story behind a court decision, told 50 years after it transformed Tribal and fisheries law (Anchorage Daily News) 2/17/2024
Klamath Basin irrigators, Tribes sign conservation agreement, Interior pledges $72M (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 2/14/2024
Fifty years on, a case to uphold Indigenous rights resonates in the US (Aljazeera) 2/12/2024
2019 Supreme Court decision still hasn't changed Wyoming's perception of Crow Tribe's hunting rights (Billings Gazette) 2/1/2024
No turning back: The largest dam removal in U.S. history begins (NPR) 1/13/2024
A legal historian’s book captures the continuing impacts of the Boldt Decision (Seattle Times) 1/12/2024
Bristol Bay fishermen celebrate Supreme Court decision to reject Alaska v. EPA (Alaska Native News) 1/9/2024
