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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreWork 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreFish 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) celebrated the success of two major estuary restoration projects this week. Returning tidal flow to former estuaries is an important step toward restoring salmon habitat. Puget Sound...
Read MoreWDFW released the following press release about the Wiley Slough restoration project, in partnership with the Skagit River System Cooperative, the natural resources management arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes:...
Read MoreThe Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) has found evidence that beavers living in the tidal marsh are creating prime salmon habitat. The SRSC is the natural resources arm of the Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes. The...
Read MoreThe 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 River System Cooperative is the...
Read MoreThe 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 restore the beach around the Tesoro...
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