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Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're

bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. First, a look at how December floods have been

impacting our fish population. Surging floodwaters can be rough on salmon,

especially when rivers are blocked off from going where they want to go. Biologists and tribes say

giving rivers more room to Rome can help both salmon and people. John Ryan reports from the mouth

of the Stillaguamish River north of Seattle.

Scott Boyd is walking through deep mud at the river's edge.

This river mouth changed dramatically in October.

That's when the Stillagwamish tribe removed two miles of earthen levee

that kept the river and the tides from spreading onto nearby farmland. Well, before it was

a dairy operation, and now it's a big tidal marsh. Boyd is a still iguamish tribal member and fisheries

manager. The tribe has about 400 members. Our official reservation is pretty small. I want to say less than

100 acres. It wasn't granted to us until maybe 10 years ago.

Over the past 15 years, the Stillagwamish tribe has purchased a couple thousand acres of land in Snohomish County for fish and wildlife habitat.

Like other tribes, the Stillagwamish signed a treaty giving up almost all of their land, but they kept their rights to fish and hunt.

It is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow to buy back the land that we essentially traded for the

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