The StoryMap highlights the cultural relationships that Tribal Nations have with lamprey, as well as the partnerships and projects working to restore the species amid widespread habitat degradation/fragmentation, water quality declines, and climate-related changes. Through maps, photos, stories, and on‑the‑ground examples, the StoryMap provides a compelling and accessible introduction to how communities across the region are working to bring lamprey home.

View the StoryMap here.

In the heavily dammed Columbia River Basin, millions have been spent on life support systems for Pacific Salmon. Yet, the little-known Pacific Lamprey has slipped through the cracks of conservation efforts and is now lost from most of its historic range in the Columbia Basin. Desperately, members of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama and Warm Springs Tribes have taken the management of Pacific lamprey into their own hands and are now fighting to bring political attention and social will to the struggle of a lost fish.

Produced in Partnership with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and in cooperation with the US Fish & Wildlife Service.