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Stewardihip Ipccntive Prograj 



The recently created Stewardship Incentive Program offers cost-sharing to 

 private landowners in fish and wildlife habitat restoration. This program 

 serves agriculture as well as timber lands, and is coordinated with local 

 Conservation Districts. 



riih Habitat Research 



WDNR is authorized to conduct research on cost-effective means to quickly 

 restore the fish-rearing capacity of lands where logging has occurred. In the 

 Chehalis Basin, the agency haB installed many instream habitat enhancement 

 features in Porter Creek and is evaluating their success. 



INDIAN TRIBES 



Quinault Indian Nation 



The Quinault Indian Nation is a recognized successor-in-interest to the tribes 

 and bands which were party to the Treaty with the Quinault, 12 Stat. 971. The 

 decision in Dnited States v. Washington , which was affirmed by the United 

 States Supreme Court, authoritatively holds the Treaty with the Quinault and 

 other Stevens Treaties secure to the tribal treaty signatories a right to 

 harvest on a river-by-river, run-by-run basis one-half of the harvestable 

 salmon and steelhead passing through usual and accustomed tribal fishing 

 grounds and stations. 



The Quinault Nation's presently adjudicated usual and accustomed fishing 

 grounds and BtationB include the Queets, Raft, Quinault, Moclips, and Copalis 

 Rivers, the Grays Harbor watershed, including the lower portions of the 

 Chehalis River baBin, and the adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean. Quinault 

 fisheries inside the Grays Harbor watershed presently operate primarily in the 

 Humptulips River, North Bay, the inner Harbor, and the mainstem of the 

 Chehalis River from the Harbor to the vicinity of Montesano. 



The Quinault Nation i« the only tribe fishing within the Dnited States v. 

 Washington Case Area that has been adjudicated by the federal district court 

 to possess complete self-regulatory Btatus. As the result of thiB status, 

 tribal members exercising Quinault treaty rights are not subject to state 

 regulation and are regulated exclusively by the Quinault Indian Nation. The 

 Nation's self-regulating status also exempts the Quinault Nation from state 

 permit requirements for fishery research and enhancement activities. Although 

 the Nation and its members are exempt from state fishery regulation, the 

 Nation's Fisheries Division routinely consults with the WDP and WDW with 

 respect to its salmon and steelhead management, research and enhancement 

 activities. 



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