The Everett Herald has a story on plans by Snohomish County, in cooperation with Tulalip Tribes, to restore salmon habitat
EVERETT – Snohomish County is close to locking up all of the land on Smith Island just east of I-5 for one of the county’s largest-ever salmon habitat restoration projects.
The County Council has signed off on the first of two major grants totaling $1.1 million meant to buy 155 acres on the island.
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In preparation, the county, the Tulalip Tribes, Everett and the Port of Everett are running computer models of how the river, tides and sediment might behave once the dikes are breached.
