History & Mission

Formed in February 1997, the Skagit Watershed Council is a community partnership for salmon.

The Watershed Council supports and endorses:

• Voluntary restoration and protection of natural landscape, floodplain, and estuarine processes that form and sustain the habitats to which salmon & trout are adapted.
• Tracking progress of actions necessary to reduce habitat, harvest, hatchery and hydropower impacts on salmon.
• Empowering the general public through information sharing and a call to action.

By means of collaboration, technical assistance and education, we seek to fulfill our mission, which is to understand, protect and restore the productivity of healthy ecosystems in order to support sustainable fisheries.