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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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Are you looking for a way to get involved with Skagit Land Trust this summer? Join us at a stewardship work party! We have several events coming up and could use your help. Our work parties are limited to 10 people at this time.

July will offer weekly Friday work parties at Marblemount Conservation Area, and trail maintenance at Guemes Mountain and Samish Flower Farm! #workpartywednesday

Sign up is required, follow the link below or visit our website to sign up!
https://www.skagitlandtrust.org/events.aspx

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Here's a nice example of a CREP project in Whatcom County. Work like this is being done in Skagit County too, with help from the Skagit Conservation District.

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One of our key functions is to get lead entity grant money to projects that benefit salmon in our watershed. We strive to make our process as effective, efficient, and transparent as possible. You can learn more in our Lead Entity Program Guide, now on our website: https://www.skagitwatershed.org/resources/documents-archives/

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Here's an interesting editorial. The punchline is that the U.S. House of Representatives recently gave $50 million in new federal money toward Puget Sound environmental recovery, but would that be "pouring good money after bad" if potentially destructive big projects (like the proposed mine in the BC portion of our watershed) are not stopped before they can take root.

Two proposed mining projects, Alaska's Pebble Mine and the Imperial Metals project along the Skagit River headwaters in British Columbia, should join a growing list of mega projects killed over environmental concerns during the Biden Administration.

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Here's a short video that shows salmon eggs developing at part of Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group's "Salmon in the Classroom" program. Even though the "classroom" part of this program looked very different this year, it was a huge success!

Salmon in the Classroom tank process, from egg to release! SFEG would like to make a huge thank you to the WDFW ALEA program for funding this awesome educat...

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Restoration projects can take a long time to develop! Skagit River System Cooperative, Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, Seattle City Light, The Nature Conservancy in WA, have been developing a project that will improve access to important spawning grounds in Barnaby Reach for a decade! Construction of this project will start soon!

ROCKPORT — After several years of additional studies and design work, the organizations that want to restore fish habitat in the Barnaby Reach near Rockport are ready for the work

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