Attachments for Code Revision 4-7 Forest Practices - Current version and Redline for comments and 4-9 Hydraulic Projects same.

 After spending years as a pub­lic defender and witnessing the challenges of Native Americans in her hometown, Jonnie Bray decided to go back to school so she could make a different kind of impact on people in her community and beyond.

Since October, hatchery staff have spawned hundreds of summer chinook and shocked and picked (the process of removing dead eggs) through thou­sands of spring chinook eggs. They will continue shocking and picking eggs throughout December. Hatchery staff also had help from Chelan County PUD st…

 There’s something going on at North Central within the basketball programs. If you scour the rosters, you’ll find the last name of Ervin all over the place.

(Nespelem, Wash. November 29, 2022) –  In the past few months, thousands of juvenile chinook were captured in the Sanpoil River, a tributary of the upper Columbia. The juveniles were produced from 178 adult chinook that were released in the river in 2021.  These studies in the Sanpoil are pa…

Canada lynx numbers are on the up­swing in eastern Washington due to successful trapping and hauling efforts in the last two years.

November 16 — Penelope Antoine and Talliyah Timentwa shared their stories as young women for Native American Heritage Month Speaker Series hosted by the CCT Youth Development Program.

CBC Chambers — Former Lake Roosevelt High School teacher and Wrestling coach, Mr. Steve Hood, was inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame for the Class of 2022 on November 5 in Yakima. A dinner of family and friends was held on Sunday, November 13 in Ele…

Nespelem Agency, WA – Rick Desautel was the invited speaker to celebrate Native American Heritage Month as part of a CCT Youth Development Program lecture series.

NESPELEM, Wash.— Offi­cials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Colville Tribal Business Council and staff from the tribes’ environmental trust department met Tuesday, October 18, 2022 to announce proposed revisions to the Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR).

Hunt is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes (Arrow Lakes, Palouse, Entiat, Moses-Columbia, and other bands), and was raised in Nespelem, Washington. She graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School in 1998. She was one of the original Gates Millennium Scholars while she attended the Un…

COULEE DAM, WA –Scouts of America Troops 52 and 24 volunteered with Okanogan Conservation District to mark 29 storm drains in Coulee Dam. The markers read, “NO DUMPING | DRAINS TO RIVER” to serve as a reminder that pollutant runoff into storm drains causes harm to fish and other aquatic habitat. 

NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation announces that  the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology has selected the Antoine Valley Ranch  Phase 2 project for $3.95 million in funding. These funds will facilitate the Tribes’  acquisition of approximately 1,2…

Francis was born on May 22, 1952, with a twin brother Joseph Lewis Somday.  His father is William Lewis Somday, and his mother is Betty Lou Bonwell (Somday).  He was born in the small town of Republic, Washington but grew up in Malo, Washington on the north half of the Colville Reservation. 

NESPELEM, Wash. – On October 1, 2022, Colville Business Council, Colville Tribal leadership and tribal members convened at the Nespelem Community Center where tribal leadership provided an overview of the various facets of tribal government and its enterprises. 

NESPELEM, Wash. –The Nespelem Celebration Grounds was the site for the Nespelem School Suicide Awarness Prevention on September 29. In 2018, the Colville Business Council declared a state of emergency due to the suicides on the reservation.

PUBLIC NOTICE - Colville Tribal Fish & Wildlife Dept.

Colville Reservation – Mitch Factor brought his expertise to share with families in Inchelium and Omak, sponsored by CCT Head Start. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, the youngest of 10 children in a, “very loving and strong family,” according to his bio. He shared a 90-minute presentation…

OMAK, Wash. – Roxanne Best has a unique set of skills. She is a small business owner that she has been able to apply in a variety of settings to different audiences. Her first endeavor was photography that she began doing in 2014. She has been teaching Stand-Up Paddle Board (SUP) Yoga since …

OMAK, Wash. – Korey and Brittany Carden had talked about opening a business amongst themselves. They had money saved up and were waiting on the right opportunity that fit their schedules and family needs. Korey works at the Waterfall Immersion School as a Primary Classroom Guide Apprentice a…

SPOKANE, WA. – The Spokane Tribe, in partnership with the Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT), released 175 chinook into the Spokane River at the People’s Park, just downstream from Riverfront Park in Spokane.

Nespelem, Wash. (August 22, 2022) – A restoration project was recently completed this month along the Twisp River, a tributary of the Methow River, that will help to restore critical Habitat for spring chinook, summer steelhead and bull trout.

Washington State congressmen Newhouse, and congresswomen McMorris-Rodgers along with Arkansas congressmen Bruce Westerman visit the Colville Tribe, taking part in a forestry tour of the Reservation 

PULLMAN, Wash. – Vanessa (Nessa) Ankney attends Washington State University (WSU) in their ROAR program (Responsibility, Opportunity, Advocacy, Respect). WSU ROAR is a Dept. of Education approved comprehensive transition and post-secondary program (CTP) for students with intellectual and dev…

Nespelem Agency – Newly elected council members from the Inchelium District, Cindy Marchand and Cody Peone, took the oath of office with Virgil “Smoker” Marchand, Joe Somday, Dustin Best, Char Zacherle, and Andy Josephy, Jr. 

FINTRY, B.C. - Spirit Peoples and his wife Viola Brown live near lead of the lake near Okanagan Indian Band #1, where she is on Band Council and they raise their three children. His oldest son is attending EWU in Cheney. Spirit is an artist who has illustrated a Syilx children’s book "How Co…

Since the onslaught of wildfires, particularly over the last decade here on the Colville Reservation, many Colville Tribal Members have contacted the Forestry Department about being updated on our efforts to replant forested areas severely impacted by wildfires.  

WINTHROP, Wash. – The Colville Tribes held a ceremony (June 21) at the Wagner Ranch, outside of Winthrop, Washington to recognize the work to gift the ranch to the Colville Tribes and Tribal Members of the Methow Band. The proceedings were opened with an honor song by Robbie Stafford, TJ Erb…