By Lisa Fenley, WSDOT, your project created the pooling of water that undermined highway 20 east of Rockport. You can’t put that much debris in a body of water and not expect water pressure to build elsewhere, like right in front of (at the upstream end of) the man-made logjam. The debris got caught up
READ MOREThe Washington Department of Natural Resources has just published an informative “Story Map” on the use of LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology by geologists to study the earth’s surface. This technology is being used in the development of computer simulation models for the Barnaby Reach project. To view the story map, “The Bare Earth,” and
READ MOREBy Dave Hallock with Christie Fairchild and Howard Stafford The Barnaby Reach Project’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee met on September 7, 2017, in Concrete. This committee is composed of representatives of the significant area stakeholders in the project, including: designated representatives of residential land owners; the National Park Service, the Washington Department of Transportation, the Washington
READ MOREHere is a project update letter from Cynthia Carstad, Consultant to the Skagit River System Cooperative for its Barnaby Reach Habitat Project. “Greetings! This message is being sent to individuals who have requested to receive updates on the Barnaby Reach Habitat Project. On May 13, more than 26 community members and other stakeholders attended the
READ MOREBy Dave Hallock Thanks to Devin Smith of the Skagit River System Cooperative and his staff for conducting an informative walking tour of the Barnaby Reach project area this afternoon. We had a good turnout of neighbors and there was a lot of helpful information sharing and conversation. It was great that Skagit County Commissioners
READ MOREA site tour of the Barnaby Reach project site is planned for Saturday, May 13th, at 1 p.m. (Click on image to enlarge): Here is a copy of the “Barnaby Fact Sheet” which will be distributed at the tour. Barnaby Fact Sheet May2017 FINAL
READ MOREBy Dave Hallock I had the opportunity to meet this past Tuesday afternoon with two lead consultants for Natural Systems Design (NSD), along with Devin Smith, Project Manager for the Barnaby Reach project, and Cynthia Carlstad, of Carlstad Consulting, who has been retained by Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) to coordinate community outreach relating to
READ MOREA special issue of the Northwest Scientific Association’s journal, Northwest Science, has been published that focuses on climate change impacts on the Skagit River Basin. It was written by the scientists of the Skagit Climate Science Consortium (SCSC). We are grateful to the Northwest Scientific Association for making articles from this special issue available in PDF format
READ MOREBy Dave Hallock Along with several of my Rockport neighbors, I recently had the opportunity to visit with Richard Brocksmith, Executive Director of the Skagit Watershed Council regarding the Barnaby Slough project. The Skagit Watershed Council has responsibilities around reviewing and endorsing salmon habitat projects seeking approval and grant funding by Washington’s Salmon Recovery Funding
READ MOREHere is an email letter from Cynthia Carlstad, consultant to the steering committee for the Barnaby Reach project, received October 28, 2016: “Greetings Barnaby Reach Project Stakeholder Advisory Committee and Interested Parties: This email provides updates on project activities since my last message in late August. As I described then, the project Steering Committee (Skagit
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