Restoration Planning Documents

In 2018, the Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) formed the Skagit Culvert Working Group together with project partners Skagit County, the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group, and the Upper Skagit Tribe, to complete the initial phase of a project to update … Continued

This plan presents all tasks required to adequately monitor the success of the Deepwater Slough Restoration Project. The plan is based on a conceptual model linking watershed processes to habitat conditions and functions, and biological responses to those functions. Thom … Continued

The Skagit River Basin is the largest river system contributing to the Puget Sound trough (Burns, 1985). At its terminus with the Puget Sound, the river has migrated and contributed hydraulically with an extensive geomorphic delta that extends from Samish … Continued

The middle reach of the Skagit River extends approximately 43 miles from the town of Sedro-Woolley upstream to the confluence of the Sauk River (Map 1). The Skagit Watershed Council targeted the Middle Skagit River in a grant to the … Continued

Illabot Creek is a very productive tributary of the Skagit River that supports populations of Chinook, chum, coho, and pink salmon, native char and steelhead trout. Much of the watershed has already been protected or restored. However, there are a … Continued

Off-channel habitat includes overflow channels, sloughs, wetlands, and small streams found within the floodplains of larger river channels. These habitat features are created and maintained by channel migration and avulsion of larger river channels during peak flow events. Off-channel habitat … Continued

The Suiattle River is located within the Skagit River watershed and enters the right bank of the Sauk River, the largest tributary to the Skagit River, just downstream from the Town of Darrington, WA. The Suiattle River watershed drains approximately … Continued

Barriers that prevent access to existing aquatic habitat have been identified as one of the most significant limitations to salmonid productivity in the Pacific Northwest (Shear and Steel 2006). Transportation corridors, agriculture, urbanization and other human land-use practices have diminished … Continued

The South Fork Skagit River Estuarine Habitat Restoration Assessment is an ongoing habitat evaluation project designed to track and assess progress towards meeting restoration goals. Results from this assessment will be applied towards adaptive management of project sites and towards … Continued

The purpose of this Feasibility Assessment is to determine if landscape and land use conditions at Possession Park could support the restoration of a small historic pocket estuary to saltwater and tidal influence while concurrently maintaining the existing land use. … Continued

The purpose of this Feasibility Assessment is to determine if landscape and land use conditions at Camano Island State Park could support the restoration of a small historic pocket estuary to saltwater and tidal influence while concurrently maintaining the existing … Continued

The Skagit Chinook Recovery Plan (2005) emphasized the need to protect and restore freshwater rearing habitats, and the processes that formed these habitats at the watershed, floodplain, and reach levels. It set-up goals of no net loss (protection) plus habitat … Continued

The Wiley Slough Restoration Project is a collaborative project between the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Skagit Watershed Council, the Skagit River System Cooperative, Seattle City Light, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and others. This project … Continued

Salmon habitat restoration projects have reforested around 800 hectares in the Skagit River watershed from 2008 to 2017 but coincident growth of the North Cascades Elk Herd has complicated these efforts. Cervus canadensis (elk) browse terminal and primary lateral branches … Continued

This feasibility study examines restoration opportunities for the Prairie Creek and Unnamed Creek watersheds with special focus on the alluvial fan and floodplain reaches of the Prairie Creek Drainage (WRIA 04.1069) located in the Sauk Prairie Watershed Administrative Unit of … Continued

The Kukutali Preserve, located within Skagit Bay in Skagit County, Washington, was purchased in 2010 and is co-owned and co-managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (State Parks) and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (SITC). The preserve encompasses … Continued