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State officials warn salmon recovery imperiled by shifting hydrograph; urge climate‑resilient water planning
Summary
Department of Ecology leaders and state fish managers told the Salmon Recovery Funding Board that climate change is already reshaping Washington’s water year: higher winter runoff, much lower late‑summer flows and rising stream temperatures that threaten salmon life stages and demand coordinated, faster action.
Casey Sixkiller, director of the Washington Department of Ecology, told the Salmon Recovery Funding Board that climate‑driven changes to the state’s hydrology require faster, coordinated action to protect salmon. “Salmon matter,” Sixkiller said, urging a shift from planning to implementation and cross‑agency coordination.
Jen Hennessy, Ecology’s special assistant for climate resilience, summarized the agency’s updated Climate Resilience Strategy and cited current trends: Washington has lost roughly a quarter of its snowpack since 1950, glaciers have shrunk and peak runoff now arrives earlier in many basins. Hennessy…
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