Skagit County, A Place of Beauty

The Skagit is a place of incredible beauty, amazing people, and abundant natural resources. At Skagit Watershed Council, we believe that a healthy community contributes to protecting what it loves – its natural beauty and resource, its cultural richness and history, its people, and its future.

In that spirit of community, Skagit Watershed Council is launching the #OurSkagit photo contest. Head over to our blog to read more!

Skagit Watershed Council

'Our Skagit' is a broad-based initiative to empower folks who live, work and play in the Skagit area to protect our natural environment and our communities through knowledge, dialogue and the motivation to act. The Skagit Valley and its coastal regions are places of scenic beauty and natural resource abundance that have provided us with economic vitality and cultural richness. Diverse communities and interests - fishers, farmers, loggers, builders, recreationists, conservationists and others - have worked hard to steward the bounty and beauty of this place for the benefit of their families and future generations. We all share a sense of community around this special place. While we have differences, we have much more in common that should be celebrated. Our challenge, in the face of so much change coming to our Skagit, is finding common paths forward that recognize and protect our quality of life into the future.

Skagit Watershed Council18 hours ago

Updates from the most recent Killer Whale Task Force meeting:

Long Live the Kings

Updates from the most recent Killer Whale Task Force meeting:

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Skagit Watershed Council22 hours ago

Where in the Skagit Valley can you find train #6 ?
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Skagit Watershed Council2 days ago

Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group has a new project that will improve water quality which salmon and us all will benefit from!

SFEG is one of 41 member organizations of the Skagit Watershed Council, who all working together to understand, protect and restore the productivity of healthy ecosystems in order to support sustainable fisheries.

Sedro-Woolley, Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group launch park project

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — East of Sedro-Woolley’s dog park and fewer than 1,000 feet from the Skagit River sits about 12 acres of unused city-owned land — much of it overrun by

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Skagit Watershed Council3 days ago

Two watersheds to the south of us, a 16-year project in the Snohomish River watershed is starting to bear fruit as dikes are breached to provide habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon allowing them to grow before entering the Pacific Ocean.

Farmers, local government, and tribes were able to work together to progress this project which will be completed this October.

In the Skagit watershed, we need more cooperative efforts between all parties in order to increase estuary and side-channel habitat for Chinook salmon.

To expand salmon habitat, county floods farmland | HeraldNet.com

The Smith Island restoration project in the Snohomish River delta reached a major milestone Friday.

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Skagit Watershed Council3 days ago

This Chinook salmon traveled up the Skagit River, Cascade River, then Clark Creek AND still had this energy!
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Skagit Watershed Council3 days ago

Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection is removing a road to restore the tombolo (a long, sandy mound stretching from the mainland to the island) which will increase juvenile salmon connectivity and provide forage fish habitat.

Work underway to restore Kukutali Preserve beach

KIKET ISLAND — Work is underway to remove a road and reveal the beach that was buried beneath it at the Kukutali Preserve on the west side of the Swinomish

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