Farming newspaper digs into tribe-directed advocacy campaign

An advertising campaign overseen by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has prompted lawmakers to ask for a federal investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer money, the agricultural newspaper “Capital Press” has reported.

The “What’s Upstream” advertising campaign calls on state lawmakers to require 100-foot buffers between salmon streams and farmland.

According to Capital Press, the campaign was commissioned by Swinomish with money funneled to the tribe from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, which had received a grant of $18 million from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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