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View our past Skagit Update newsletters:
“Keeping the Land Nice for Our Grandkids”
October 2, 2024Volunteer Spotlight: Paul Johnson You may recognize Paul Johnson (pictured above, center), a regular at Skagit Land Trust work parties. A resident of Burlington for …
Staff Picks for Hikes in the Northwest Region
March 6, 2024Connecting with nature is a valued activity for the staff at Skagit Land Trust. One of best parts of the job is getting to explore …
Investing in Future Resilience on Padilla Bay
April 21, 2023For the past 25 years Skagit Land Trust (the Trust) has been working to conserve the land and waters at the entrance to Samish Island. We …
Commissioner Resolution Halts Consideration of Full Contained Communities
January 20, 2023During the fall of 2021, Skagit County Commissioners considered whether the County’s comprehensive plan should be altered to allow Fully Contained Communities (FCCs). In January 2022, …
30 Years of Conservation at Barney Lake
October 6, 2022Keeping Barney Lake Remarkable “That Trumpeter Swans were nearly extinct, and Barney Lake played a central role in the recovery of the largest swans in …
The Miles Legacy on Samish Island
August 2, 2022Gary Miles and his wife, Betty first met with Skagit Land Trust in 1999 to discuss leaving their 10-acre forested property on Samish Island to the …
Managing Your Own Land with a Conservation Lens
April 18, 2022As stewards of over 6,000 acres of forestland in Skagit County, we get questions from landowners interested in learning more about how to best manage their …
Snags: There’s Life in a Dead Tree
April 18, 2022With a funny name for an important part of the ecosystem, ‘snags’ refer to standing dead trees. Without snags, many different types of wildlife would …
ACFL Easement Expands
April 12, 2022Skagit Land Trust’s Conservation Easement on the Anacortes Community Forest Lands Grows by 253 Acres In Spring of 2020, 253 acres of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands …
Hurn Field Grows Again
October 26, 2021One of Skagit Land Trust’s most beloved Conservation Areas, Hurn Field, just got bigger with the addition of five acres of floodplain salmon habitat. …