The Skagit Valley Herald editorialized about the Skagit River System Cooperative's effort to rebuild a boat launch and restore the beach near the Tesoro Refinery on March Point. The Skagit…
The Skagit River System Cooperative, the natural resources arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes, is working with the state Department of Natural Resources to replace a boat launch and…
Tribes are working with Seattle City Light to study Skagit River chum. The P-I reports:
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — On the Skagit River, biologists netted a 3-foot chum salmon with stripes the color of a bad bruise and vampire teeth just beginning to show.
The fish will be dead within a month. But during the next few weeks, they’ll learn more than they have in the past 30 years about how this wild fish behaves.
The Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) had a story yesterday about plans to restore tidal flooding to Wiley Slough. The project is a partnership between Skagit River System Cooperative and…
The Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) had an article Sunday about a USGS project to map the ocean floor of Skagit Bay and Deception Pass to show how the seabed looks today and how it looked 150 years ago.
For the scientists with the Skagit River System Cooperative, an agency of the Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish Indian tribes that works to improve the fisheries in the river basin, the maps of before and after may help them prove a theory.
Confining the river to two channels causes silt-laden fresh water to squirt like a “fire hose” into the Skagit Bay, said Greg Hood, senior restoration ecologist for the tribal cooperative.