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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.

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'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.

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June is Orca Month and there are a lot of cool virtual events going on to celebrate. #OrcaLove #PNW

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Join us around the Pacific Northwest for events to celebrate Orca Awareness Month!

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This week's "lecture" is a film about a proposal to add a dam in the Chehalis Watershed. It expresses multiple views concerning the challenge between meeting the needs of people and the needs of local fish populations.

Chehalis: A Watershed Moment

Faced with worsening floods and a prized salmon population on the brink of extinction, communities along Washington’s Chehalis River must decide whether to c...

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The Skagit Land Trust is starting a virtual book club and will be hosting a conversation with the author of Natural Grace later this month. Very exciting! #keeplearning

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Tomorrow, as our weekly "lecture" post, we will be sharing a documentary film about how climate change and a legacy of human impact has reshaped Washington’s Chehalis River and the people living in the watershed. Told by the people grappling with the very decisions that steer the fate of this fragile river, its salmon, and their communities, the film explores the intersection of social, cultural, economic and environmental values that are increasingly re-defined by new climate realities. Here is the trailer.

CHEHALIS: A WATERSHED MOMENT [OFFICIAL PREVIEW]

The future of the Washington state's most diverse river hangs by a thread. Faced with worsening floods and a prized salmon population on the brink of extinct...

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Hey, Ranger Robin here, just hanging out by the Skagit River.

Did you know the Skagit River is 150 miles long, runs through the park, and has spawning populations of all 5 species of Pacific salmon in addition to bull trout and coastal cutthroat trout? Fish residing within the Skagit watershed encounter many obstacles and challenges including degradation of spawning tributaries, logging, dams, commercial fishing, dikes, farm runoff, water withdrawal, and hatcheries.

It's quite the feat of strength for salmon to make the journey from the ocean up the Skagit to spawn. Can you name at least one species of Pacific salmon that spawn in the Skagit?

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Hey, Ranger Robin here, just hanging out by the Skagit River. Did you know the Skagit River is 150 miles long, runs through the park, and has spawning populations of all 5 species of Pacific salmon in addition to bull trout and coastal cutthroat trout? Fish residing within the Skagit watershed encounter many obstacles and challenges including degradation of spawning tributaries, logging, dams, commercial fishing, dikes, farm runoff, water withdrawal, and hatcheries. It's quite the feat of strength for salmon to make the journey from the ocean up the Skagit to spawn. Can you name at least one species of Pacific salmon that spawn in the Skagit? Video NPS / Marissa Bluestein

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Every year, the Skagit Conservation Education Alliance (SCEA) helps local students put on a Skagit Watershed Letterbox Trail. We are working with them to redesign the trail in light of COVID concerns. Instead of boxes, there will be digital info sheets like this. The trails should be up before the end of the month. We will keep you posted.