Skokomish:
The Value of a River

The Skokomish river was once the largest and most productive salmon river in Puget Sound. In 1930, despite the opposition of the Skokomish Tribe, the City of Tacoma built two dams on the North Fork of the river, and diverted the flow into a pipe to drive a hydropower plant. The resources available from this Web site (an article, a videotape and a simulation model) were developed in support of the Tribe's efforts to restore the river to its banks.

On August 22, 2006 the Skokomish Tribe won a partial victory when the United States Court of Appeals decided to increase the minimum river flow from 60 to 240 cfs. Read the entire Court decision here!

Resources available from this site (just click!):

(You will need a copy of "Real Media" player, free software, to play the video. If you want to download a copy click here before you download the video).

This model enables users to evaluate the economic and ecological effects of alternative management scenarios for the Skokomish river.  You will need to obtain a free run-time version of the Stella©  modeling software in order to run this model.  Here's how:

1. Download the free run-time version of the Stella© modeling software.
2. Download the Skokomish simulation model (Mac only).
3. Download the instructions for running the simulation model.

4. Download the Skomomish simulation model for Windows

   (This is a self-extracting file. Just click on the icon after it is loaded.)

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