• Martin Slough Fish Passage Feasibility and Design

    Martin Slough Fish Passage Feasibility and Design0

    Here is a link to information on this project: https://secure.rco.wa.gov/…. “This request would be for a design only project to evaluate road abandonment at the site of a three foot pipe on Martin Slough. This culvert has been identified as a fish passage issue in the Barnaby slough feasibility study (09-1440P) and other documents and

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  • Martin Road Riparian Restoration

    Martin Road Riparian Restoration1

    Here is the link to information regarding this project along the Skagit River and Bow and Martin Sloughs. https://secure.rco.wa.gov/prism/… “This project will restore 26 acres of riparian buffer adjacent to an established Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) along the Skagit River and Bow and Martin Sloughs near Rockport, on the left bank of the Skagit

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  • LiDAR in Washington State

    LiDAR in Washington State0

    The 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

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  • Letter to Skagit River System Cooperative Barnaby Project Leaders

    Letter to Skagit River System Cooperative Barnaby Project Leaders0

    Following receipt of a letter indicating that there will be no meeting of the “Barnaby Project” “Stakeholder Advisory Committee” in the near future, I drafted the following letter to the key leaders of the Skagit River System Cooperative, Steve Hinton and Devin Smith, and their project consultant, Cynthia Carlstad. We’ve repeatedly expressed complete opposition to

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  • Letter to Senator Kirk Pearson Asking for Support

    Letter to Senator Kirk Pearson Asking for Support0

    Dear Senator Pearson, I am writing to you on behalf of my neighbors who live and own homes and land in the Martin Road area of Rockport. We are very concerned about the potential for an increase in our exposure to flood risk associated with a developing project to improve fish habitat just upriver from

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  • Letter to Senator Kirk Pearson

    Letter to Senator Kirk Pearson0

    We had the opportunity to meet with our state senator, Kirk Pearson, this evening in Marblemount to discuss the Barnaby Reach project. He listened well and asked that we follow promptly with a summary of our conversation so he could refer to it tomorrow in his meeting with the head of the Washington Department of

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