About the Project
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The Wiley Slough Restoration project is a collaboration between the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), the Skagit Watershed Council, the Skagit River System Cooperative, Seattle City Light, and several Federal agencies and private interests. The intent of this collaboration is to develop a design for restoring an historic tidal and riverine system, thereby benefiting the diversity of fish and wildlife species that rely on estuaries, including salmon and a wide variety of migratory birds.
Our intention is to rehabilitate natural processes at the Wiley Sough site that will be largely self-sustaining and in turn will support natural fish, wildlife and vegetative communities common to estuarine habitats in Puget Sound. To this end, our design approach focuses on restoring important physical processes (tidal and riverine flooding). The project will be designed in a way that protects interests of adjacent land owners, promotes wildlife oriented recreational activities consistent with the restoration objectives, and considers the perspectives of stakeholders affected by the project.