Helen Cherullo
WATCH: Feeding Refugees, Protecting the Sound: ...

Soon after arriving in King County in 2016, Tahmina Martelly signed on as manager of Resiliency Programs for World Relief Seattle. Through that program, she envisioned and led an innovative effort to tear up an unused hillside parking lot and replace it with food gardens and a rain-collection system--diverting many thousands of gallons of polluted storm runoff before it could reach the Duwamish River and Elliott Bay on Puget Sound.

WATCH: Feeding Refugees, Protecting the Sound: Tahmina Martelly
Helen Cherullo
WATCH: Leonard Forsman on Tribal Treaty Rights ...

Leonard Forsman is the Chairman of the Suquamish Tribe and President of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. In five minutes, Chairman Forsman takes us through hundreds of years of regional history, many threats to Tribal Treaty rights, including the severe threat of dwindling salmon runs throughout the northwest year after year, affecting livelihoods, ecosystems, and jeopardizing the Tribal treaties to which the United States is legally bound.

WATCH: Leonard Forsman on Tribal Treaty Rights and Salmon Recovery
Melia Paguirigan
Harnessing the Power of Plants to Restore Urban ...
Harnessing the Power of Plants to Restore Urban Areas: Andrew Schiffer

Working the Night Tide

Working the Night Tide

Some of my most cherished childhood memories are of my mom telling me bedtime stories about working the night tide. She still holds the title “the legend of Oakland Bay” at Taylor Shellfish and our oldest clam crew members still tell tall tales about working with her. My mom has a lot of stories about working on the night tides—seeing whales, getting surprised by otters, getting caught in thunderstorms, rescuing octopi, connecting with her crewmates.

We recognize that the Salish Sea region are traditional and present-day homelands of many Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Nations. We acknowledge the place-based knowledge of these peoples, and are grateful for their ancestral and current stewardship of these lands.