Posts Tagged “other estuaries”
Excerpt from Crosscut: The closer one gets to shore, the more intense the range of often competing human uses of the sea becomes. With all their maritime traffic, recreational users, fisheries, and pollution sources, the waters that lap the shores of western Washington constitute a case in point. A new concept known as marine spatial [...]
From: http://nwifc.org/2010/12/tulalip-project-returns-the-tide-to-isolated-floodplain/ TULALIP – Work is well under way on the Qwuloolt estuary project to return tidal processes to 350 acres of isolated floodplain in the Snohomish River watershed. “We lost critical salmon habitat in the early 1900s when the Marysville marshes were drained and the area was diked for farming,” said Tulalip tribal Chairman [...]
The Nisqually Estuary is being restored in unprecedented ways! The media is paying attention too! What’s enclosed below are several excerpts about what’s going on as viewed by recreationalists / journalists. ————– After a century of diking off tidal flow, the Brown Farm Dike was removed to inundate 308 ha of the Nisqually National Wildlife [...]
