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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.

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 Council

Here's a well-made video about Coho restoration work being done on timer land in the Eel River Watershed of California.

Coho Salmon - Saving Species Together

Saving Species Together - Everyone can help protect species! Coho specialists from a timber company, a non-profit, and NOAA Fisheries come together to help j...

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This is a great article on the biological and social sciences of fisheries management. Skagit area tribal nations have also been on the forefront of management, dramatically reducing harvests over the last couple of decades, often only getting a few days of Chinook salmon fishing per year.

The Skagit’s SIX populations of Chinook represent spatial and temporal biocomplexity as well. State and tribal governments began managing for that diversity in Skagit decades ago, which has led to the largest, most sustainable Spring Chinook populations in all of Puget Sound.

Skeena sockeye returns jump 50 per cent in three years thanks to Indigenous leadership | The Narwhal

B.C. First Nations voluntarily closed their food fishery or limited the catch for two decades to help rebuild salmon populations. This year, those sacrifices are paying off

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Skagit Watershed Council

We are so grateful for all the amazing work the Skagit Conservation District does for #OurSkagit!

Skagit Conservation District

The Skagit Conservation District has been named the NW Area District of the year! Our Executive Director Bill Blake and team has worked hard over the past several years to make our community a better place. We are committed to our conservation efforts. We thank our volunteers, our cooperators who implemented best management practices, our Firewise communities that stepped up to make their homes and communities safe from wildfires and our amazing partners that continue to believe that we can find solutions to the health of our waters, forests, soils, and life! We thank you for your continued support!❤️

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Skagit Watershed Council

Here's an article with more information about today's #MapMonday post about where to view salmon in #ourskagit

Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group

Check out this article about our Salmon Discovery Map and website in the Skagit Valley Herald!

https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/interactive-map-leads-to-salmon-viewing-locations/article_8470e4ce-b67d-5328-9155-63cb06cbb415.html

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Skagit Watershed Council

The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group has recently put out this interactive map of places to view salmon in #OurSkagit watershed. Check it out!
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