Walla Walla wildlife protection organizations

Tri-State Steelheaders restores native salmonids by enhancing habitat, providing education, and promoting recreational angling in Walla Walla, WA.

Our mission has remained the same since sff's founding in 1995: we work with other organizations, indigenous people, agencies, local governments, and other stakeholders to implement sustainable fisheries practices and management that benefit freshwater and marine fisheries resources and people who depend upon them. The sustainable lands strategy project continued into its 7th consecutive year albeit at a reduced level due to funding limitations. The project is a stakeholder-driven process facilitated by sff policy experts that aims to reconcile fisheries, agriculture, and other public interests in the major watersheds of Snohomish County in western Washington. The process has reduced the conflict and associated costs that occurred previously, and found areas of compromise, regulatory reform and mutual enterprise that are supported by all parties. Sff has relied on Dan Evans (conservation director of sff) and Cynthia Carlstadt (Carlstadt) to lead the sls project, which involves representatives from government, tribal and non-governmental organizations. The sls has been supported by grants and contributions from NOAA fisheries, the Puget Sound partnership, the city of Everett, Snohomish County, and the Stillaguamish Indian and Tulalip tribes of Washington. Sff received additional funding from the salmon recovery funding board and wa state resource and conservation office (rco) to complete a fish passage project on Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington. Construction and site restoration wrapped up in 2016: grant funds were used to compensate consultants and a contractor, and to reimburse the Willapa national wildlife refuge for expenses incurred on the project. Sff board members and volunteers organized a one-day symposium entitled "ecosystem management: breaking down the silos" at the 2016 meeting of the western division of the American fisheries society in Reno, Nevada. The symposium was well-attended.