The collaborative water-sharing program pays agricultural producers to support the spawning season in the Dungeness.
SEQUIM, Wash. —
Through an innovative partnership among farmers, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and conservation groups, the stakeholders along the Olympic Peninsula’s Dungeness River are demonstrating how collaboration can address water scarcity and protect a Washington icon: salmon.
The program pays farmers to voluntarily stop irrigating from the river during the final month of growing season, leaving water in the river for spawning salmon during drought years.
For fourth-generation dairy farmer Ben Smith, who now serves as president of the local Water Users Association and whose family has
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