Puget Sound has crabs.

An invasive species of European green crabs, “one of the world’s most harmful marine species,” has been detected in the Salish Sea. They “damage bed sediments, leading to the loss of eelgrass, an essential habitat for Dungeness crab and Pacific salmon.”

The Tulalip Tribes reported “detection of a green crab in the southern Whidbey Basin at Mission Beach” earlier this year.

Get outta here, crabbies!

#SalishSea #PugetSound #WhidbeyIsland #Swinomish #Tulalip #Washington #Crab #Crabs #Crabbing #Invasive #Invasivespecies #Dungeness #Salmon #Eelgrass

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/invasive-european-green-crabs-discovered-in-was-skagit-bay/

To learn about how to identify European green crabs and to volunteer with Molt Search, visit https://wsg.washington.edu/crabteam/moltsearch/

This is gorgeous! 🤩​

"Created by #MatikaWilbur (of the #Swinomish & #Tulalip #Tribes), #Project562 is a #documentary multi-year national #photography project dedicated to photographing 562+ federally recognized Tribes, urban #Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition & #Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the US, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery & oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary #NativeAmericans"

https://www.project562.com/11397500-gallery

In case y'all didn't know about All My Relations, it's a #podcast by two women with #Cherokee, #Swinomish, and #Tulalip heritage, and this week's episode will reduce you to a puddle of tears because they get into cultural, political, and personal trauma around language and its disappearance. But it's so worth the tears; it's so profoundly moving to hear what people are doing these days to reclaim language/relationships.

https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/491847a3/ep-9-can-our-ancestors-hear-us
#indigenous