Natural Resource Technician – Skagit River System Cooperative

Employment, Opportunities at Member Tribes

Skagit River System Cooperative is hiring for the position of Natural Resource Technician TITLE: NATURAL RESOURCE TECHNICIAN Full Time/Seasonal REPORTING AUTHORITY: Field Operations Manager GENERAL: Provide field work for SRSC programs to support implementing and maintaining native plant revegetation and other habitat restoration projects. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Assist in implementing native plant revegetation and other habitat […]

Senior Restoration Ecologist – Skagit River System Cooperative

Employment, Opportunities at Member Tribes

Skagit River System Cooperative is hiring for the position of Senior Restoration Ecologist The Senior Restoration Ecologist will work on a team with other technical specialists to manage salmon habitat projects that advance tribal objectives for salmon recovery. The Senior Restoration Ecologist will coordinate projects with tribal and local governments and state and federal agencies […]

Senior Restoration Ecologist – Skagit River System Cooperative

Employment, Opportunities at Member Tribes

Skagit River System Cooperative is hiring for the position of Senior Restoration Ecologist TITLE: Senior Restoration Ecologist REPORTING TO: Habitat Restoration Director GENERAL: The Senior Restoration Ecologist will work on a team with other technical specialists to manage salmon habitat restoration planning, design, and construction projects that advance tribal objectives for salmon recovery. Projects occur […]

Monitoring shows Skagit delta restoration benefits chinook more than expected

News

A five-year monitoring effort has shown that the Fisher Slough restoration project has benefited juvenile chinook even more than predicted in the Skagit River Salmon Recovery Plan. The Nature Conservancy led the project to restore tidal marsh habitat and connectivity in the Skagit watershed using a dike setback and a floodgate. Once the project was […]

Tribes study chinook use of small coastal streams

Lead Story, News

The Tulalip Tribes and Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) recently completed a six-year study of juvenile chinook salmon use of small coastal streams in the Whidbey basin. “Small coastal streams are often overlooked as potential salmon habitat because many flow seasonally and do not provide spawning habitat,” said Todd Zackey, the marine and nearshore program […]

Tulalip Tribes turn “gulch” into Greenwood Creek

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The Tulalip Tribes recently improved rearing habitat in a small coastal stream popular with juvenile chinook. Known to locals as “the gulch,” the unnamed stream had one of the highest densities of juvenile chinook of all the coastal streams sampled in the Whidbey basin by the Tulalip Tribes and Skagit River System Cooperative. During one […]

Restoration planned this summer for Skagit River tributary

Lead Story, News

Work is set to begin this summer to restore salmon habitat in Illabot Creek, a tributary to the Skagit River. Once a winding, multi-channeled creek, Illabot was straightened and diked in 1970 when a bridge crossing was constructed on Rockport-Cascade Road. Straightening the creek degraded salmon habitat by creating a steeper gradient, reducing channel area […]

Fish die-off in Skagit Valley likely to remain a mystery

NWIFC Blog

The Skagit Valley Herald reports on a fish die-off in Browns Slough. Last week, hundreds of shiner perch and some fingerling chinook were found dead near Fir Island Road: Other than the dead fish, nothing appeared out of the ordinary. Because there was no obvious cause of the fish deaths, Wildlife called in Ecology, which […]

Tribes restore fish access to estuary near Swinomish Reservation

News

Fish access and tidal flow were restored in March to a high-priority pocket estuary near the Swinomish reservation. The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) removed a portion of Similk Bay Road and a non-functioning tide gate that isolated about 8 acres of estuary in Turners Bay. SRSC is the natural resources extension of the Swinomish […]

Tribes remove fish-blocking culvert from Suiattle River tributary

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The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) removed an 80-foot-long, 8-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide culvert from Tenas Creek, a tributary to the Suiattle River. The culvert had provided vehicle access across the creek on a U.S. Forest Service road, but it was a barrier to resident fish species and was at risk of failing and sending sediment to […]