The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has stewarded and safeguarded the health of the Snoqualmie River watershed and its many ecosystems for millennia – and our Tribe has never felt more concerned about the future of the river that carries our name.
By every scientific standard, the Snoqualmie River is in crisis, suffering from an extreme drought and over-allocation of its limited water volume. United States Geological Survey stream flow gauges in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River are showing that we are close to the lowest flows in the last 60 years of monitoring, which can have catastrophic impacts to local ecosystems.
That is why the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has declared a State of Emergency on the Snoqualmie River and are calling on our governmental and NGO partners to urgently reconsider actions that are detrimental to the river’s health…