As found in the recent study by University of Washington researchers, over 85% of the Swinomish Indian Reservation population is impacted by the Navy’s harmful Growler jet noise.

The Growler flights impinges on the treaty-promised hunting and fishing rights of Native peoples. Pacific Northwest Tribes rely on the forests, rivers, and oceans for their survival and way of life. The lands and seas on which they depend are subjected to military maneuvers: bombing practice, ship-sinking, and sonar buoys that have killed whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other marine mammals.