Hinton, S., 2005. Wiley Slough Estuarine Design Report. Skagit River System Cooperative, La Conner, WA. pp. 154.

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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 was proposed and funded for preliminary construction design by the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board in early spring of 2003. The intent of this collaboration is to develop a detailed set of construction recommendations and actions that will restore historic tidal and riverine processes on a publicly owned parcel of land located on Fir Island, near the town of Conway, Washington (Figure 1.0). The goal of said restoration is to benefit the diversity of fish and wildlife species that rely on estuaries, including salmon and a wide variety of migratory birds. The directive of this design project is to rehabilitate natural processes within the confines of publicly owned land located at the historic Wiley Slough distributary channel of the South Fork of the Skagit River delta. Project objectives include the need for self-sustaining estuarine habitat for the benefit of indigenous fish, wildlife and vegetation communities common to the Puget Sound fiord ecosystem. To this end, our design approach focuses on restoring important physical processes (tidal and riverine flooding). The project is designed in a way that protects interests of adjacent land owners, the agricultural community, and WDFW obligations while promoting wildlife oriented recreational activities consistent with the restoration objectives.

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