Terry Williams, Tulalip's 'champion of climate issues,' dies at 74
TULALIP — When Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers looks down from a plane window, he sees Terry Williams.
“I look at the streams and I see the buffers,” said Somers, who worked alongside Williams in Tulalip for almost two decades. “… And that was Terry.”
The Tulalip tribal elder died this week at the age of 74. He “retired” just a few years ago but remained hard at work launching salmon migration mapping programs and weighing in on local watershed management plans.
In the 1980s, Williams helped draw up the first Timber/Fish/Wildlife Agreement, a 57-page document outlining plans for a more ethical future for forestry. The accord, crafted through 60 meetings between tribes, timber companies and state agencies, provided the blueprint for negotiating regulations to protect old growth, fish-bearing streams and resolving disputes out of court.
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