Winter 2009

SKAGIT UPDATE NEWSLETTER OF THE SKAGIT LAND TRUST

Saving the Skagit – Four More Properties Protected

Salmon and other wildlife will benefit for decades to come also use the land, which includes braided channels and thanks to the State Salmon Recovery Funding several wetlands. Board’s (SRFB) recent grant allowing Skagit Land Trust and its partners to protect more properties on the . Skagit Land Trust worked with The Nature Conservancy for almost three years to assist them in acquiring a 92-acre Two of the newly acquired parcels in the Middle Skagit River property adjacent to Barnaby Slough and the mouth of the area will be owned and managed by Skagit Land Trust. They tributary, Illabot Creek. Surrounded on three sides by include a 42-acre parcel on Day Creek near Warfield Road. property protected by City Light, Department of Fish The second parcel adds a key five-acre piece to the 300-acre Cumberland Creek Conservation Area which lies across the river from Hamilton. The Nature Conservancy and Skagit Land Trust worked in partnership to secure a 92-acre parcel near Rockport and a property at Pressentin Park in Marblemount that is a ½ mile of Skagit River shoreline. The Nature Conservancy will manage the first property and Skagit County Parks the latter.

These projects took several years to come to fruition. “It was a long involved process and the landowners were incredibly understanding and Board and staff of Skagit Land Trust were joined by representatives patient,” Skagit from the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group and the Skagit Land Trust’s land Watershed Council to discuss future management of the new specialist Jane conservation area on upper Day Creek. Zillig remarked regarding the Day Creek purchase. & Wildlife, and The Nature Conservancy, the former Martin Day Creek and its sloughs are very important to salmon property is the missing piece in this important area where recovery, as they were once extremely productive habitat for the Illabot Creek meets the Skagit River. These tributary Chinook, coho, chum and pink salmon as well as steelhead junctions tend to be biological hotspots because nutrients and bull trout. Large numbers of juvenile salmon have been enter the river from the creek creating more diversity and a observed in this reach and a variety of other wildlife species richer habitat. continued on page 3 Directors From the Executive Director Patsy Martin, President Alger Dear Members, Mark Hitchcock, Vice-President Bow We are in the midst of a difficult time. now and tomorrow. For example, I Janice Martin, Secretary On top of the financial woes, Mother am a member of the Task Force for Bow Earth decided to throw a few curve Sustainability and Climate Change, David Hall, Treasurer balls at us in the form of near-record Martha Bray is a member of the Anacortes snowfall and then, flooding in the conservation technical committee Bob Apter Anacortes Samish and mud and landslides up Glenn Bordner river. Yet through all this I am Mount Vernon impressed with this community’s Bob Boudinot resilience. Mount Vernon Ron Feld Mount Vernon Resilience – it is a word I hope we see and hear more of in this decade and Ralph Heft Big Lake beyond. We need it as a community Karen Krub and the land and wildlife need it as we La Conner face unprecedented changes to our Rusty Kuntze environment. We must do everything Bay View we can to avert emergent problems. Curtis Miller We must also learn to manage our Fir Island lands so that they build resilience to Pat Sneeringer Mount Vernon climate change, to flooding, to of the Alternative Futures Project and Russ Weiser population pressures and to altering Bow water supplies. Keith Wiggers Patsy Martin serves on the Burlington As a land trust our focus is on steering committee, and board Andrea Xaver conserving land for now and the future. member Bob Boudinot chairs the Big Lake If we only focused on land that is Flood Control Zone District Staff threatened today, we would have more Advisory Committee. Molly Doran Executive Director than enough to deal with. Yet we must We can’t precisely predict the Martha Bray also plan for the changes that are Conservation Director coming and get in front of them as best impact of changes that are both Michael Kirshenbaum we can before they take enormous upon us and coming, but it is Stewardship Director efforts to fix. An example is our work on undisputed that a generous-sized Jane Zillig natural environment in the Skagit Land Specialist the Skagit River east of Sedro-Woolley will give this and future Renata Hoyle Maybruck where our protection efforts, alongside Development & Communications Director those of our many partners, are communities, as well as wildlife, a Diane Bednarz helping to conserve a corridor where far better chance of adapting and Administrative Assistant natural river processes can occur. This of being resilient. Sue Edelberg Volunteer Coordinator protects and helps to restore high quality fish and wildlife habitat today Thank you for helping to conserve General Counsel the important lands and waterways Bradford E. Furlong, P.S. and keeps building off the active floodplain. It will benefit future wildlife of Skagit County. It is essential and communities in ways we can’t even work. Skagit Update, Skagit Land Trust imagine as they face enormous PO Box 1017,325 Pine Street, St.B Mount Vernon, WA 98273 changes coming in the next 100 years. Molly Doran, voice: (360)-428-7878 fax: (360)-336-1079 email: [email protected] In order to both educate ourselves and website: www.skagitlandtrust.org offer our perspective, many of us are Managing Editor: Diane Bednarz Editor: Molly Doran involving ourselves in collaborative Executive Director Drawings by Brenda Cunningham local planning and visioning processes Contributors: Staff & Ralph Heft that deal with our lands and resources Cover photo of eagle by Phil Green 2 continued from page 1 “We are very keen on protecting these kind of floodplain processes. Land uses and efforts to control the river tend to simplify and constrain the river system, and over time take away important side channel habitat,” said Conservation Director Martha Bray who oversaw the protection of these properties for the Trust. “The parcel lies in the heart of the Skagit River Bald Eagle Natural Area. In many respects it is the hole in the donut of one of the most productive and protected reaches of the Skagit River system,” commented Bob Carey, Skagit River Program Director for The Nature Conservancy. The Martin property consists entirely of key riparian floodplain habitat, part of it is in cleared pasture and part is still forested. “Jane was instrumental in the successful negotiation of this sale and it was quite an accomplishment,” Carey noted.

Skagit Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy work together to protect salmon habitat in the Upper Skagit River Area between Concrete and the Park boundary. Whereas The Nature Conservancy typically does the research for projects in this area and manages the property once protected, Skagit Land Trust often assists by doing the outreach and purchase negotiations.

The Skagit Watershed Council provides oversight and recommended the purchases to the Salmon Recovery The SRFB grant received builds on previous Funding Board. A fifth partner, Seattle City Light, was of awards to Skagit Land Trust & The Nature great assistance in these particular acquisitions as land they Conservancy. This collaberation has helped lead protected on the Skagit River near Concrete was allowed to the way for numerous miles of protection of the Skagit River. Below right: Our picturesque be used as “match” thus lowering acquisition expenses for Cumberland Creek Conservation Area is used for the The Nature Conservancy and Skagit Land Trust. photo & birding tours as well as benefiting salmon and other wildlife. Photo by Steve Philbrick 3 Stewardship Update

Stewardship Interpretive Project Update Following upon the well-received interpretive signs at Hurn Elk Field, we are planning several additional interpretive displays at other properties. There are two displays currently in the works: The first will be installed at our Green Road Marsh Conservation Area (formerly Butler Flats), at the corner of Green Rd. and Kelleher Rd. (pictured), and will explain the natural history of this wetland as it relates to the historic Olympia Marsh. The second interpretive sign will be placed along the Tommy Thompson trail above Fidalgo Bay, which is protected with a SLT conservation easement, along the old railroad trestle. We hope to have both of these signs installed by this spring or summer.

Winter Stewardship Update Skagit Land Trust stewardship field work will kick into high gear this late winter and early spring, with projects at numerous properties. Although a final workplan is still being formulated, the following projects are likely to occur in the next few months:

• Tope Ryan Conservation Area – Continue plantings in the main pasture to convert it to woodland and maintain the plantings already in place. • Lyman Slough Conservation Area – Restore areas damaged by the installation of large-woody debris structures placed in the slough to improve salmon habitat. • Cumberland Creek Conservation Area – Maintain the existing trail network and restoration plantings by cutting back weeds. • Hurn Field Conservation Area – Retrieve blue tree protectors from original restoration plantings. • Barr Creek Conservation Area – Begin work on parking pullout, signage and trail maintenance.

Please join us in helping to protect Skagit Land Trust’s conservation areas by attending a field work party. Dates and times for specific events will be posted on our web site, or email [email protected] to be added to our stewardship email list.

Northern Harriers and Great Blue Herons are frequent visitors to wetland areas. Photos by Phil Green

The Green Road Marsh Conservation Area interpretive sign will give a brief history of this important 42 acre wetland preserved by Skagit Land Trust in partnership with the Natural Resource Conservation Service.

4 Welcome Sue Edelberg

Hello! My name is Sue and I am the Americorps Volunteer Coordinator from North Carolina. I have had the opportunity to meet several of you around the office and at our events, but there are still many of you whose acquaintance I have yet to meet. It has been a wonderful three months thus far at the Trust and I can’t wait to get out in the field and do some plantings in the spring. Please join me!

Skagit’s Natural Life-support System to escape the island. Although we have the transportation today to escape local ecological disasters, we are running by guest writer, Ralph Heft out of places to go. If we don’t manage our life support system wisely, Earth may become Easter Island.

Skagit Valley’s natural life-support system consists of Wangari Muta Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from the land, water, air, and living things. This natural Kenya, recently noted that God created humans on the system is dynamic. Changes to it may be triggered by sixth day instead of the first because they needed all the natural events and by human activity. other creations to survive. She highlights the need for us to conserve God’s gift of a natural life-support system in Prior to 1800, forests and wildlife occupied most of the order to insure our own survival. land and human demands on fish, wildlife, and plants were within the ability of the land to supply them. This Fortunately, the Skagit Valley’s natural life-support has changed dramatically. In the early part of the system is still in fairly good condition with the exception 1900’s, families depended on the production of the land of a few key areas such as salmon habitat and flood for their sustenance. By the end of the century, pathways. This gives us the chance to make a real improvements in transportation and communication difference for our future. If we choose to make the technology made it possible to live in Skagit Valley necessary land conservation decisions now, we still have without a natural resource job. The demand for family an opportunity to maintain the portions of the system that living space continues to grow. Humans increasingly are working and to restore those that are not. occupy farm land, forest, and fish and wildlife habitat. Skagit Land Trust is a leader in land conservation which Throughout history the overuse of ecosystems — is critical to our survival in Skagit Valley. With your natural life-support systems — has resulted in species support, we can continue to conserve and restore our extinction and the collapse of human societies. Jared natural life-support system for ourselves and for Diamond’s book, Collapse: How societies choose to fail posterity. or succeed, gives several examples including the Anasazi in the southwestern U. S. where people abandoned their Ralph Heft is a board member of the Trust and former land settlements and the Easter Islanders where most of the manager for the Bureau of Land Management. He currently owns and runs Big Lake Tree Farm with his wife Ruth. population died of starvation because they were not able

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Photo by Christine Kitch 7 Join Us for Skagit Land Trust’s Annual Meeting

Friday, March 20, 2009 from 6-9pm at Maple Hall – La Conner

6 pm – Social hour, appetizers, refreshments

7 pm – Trust year in review, elections and updates, short business meeting & awards

8 pm –Dr. Estella Leopold speaking on the History of Flora

Dr. Estella Leopold, the youngest daughter of Aldo Leopold, is a professor emeritus of botany in the Biology Department at the University of Washington.

After receiving a Ph.D. in plant sciences from Yale University in 1956 Dr Leopold went to work for the U.S. Geological Survey in its paleontology laboratory in Denver. Her scientific work there combined with organizing a major scientific political battle that resulted in the creation of the Florrissant Fossil Beds National Monument, a 6,000-acre reserve in central Colorado that is home to one of the richest and most diverse deposits of plant and insect fossils in the world.

During her career, Estella has authored more than 100 scientific publications. Her research has focused on the use of fossil pollen and seeds to determine the regional history of climate change, origin of grasslands, desert tundra and forest types, as well as evolution of herbs and woody plants. Estella has been an ardent supporter of conservation throughout her life and is an active member of the board of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Estella is a lively and knowledgeable speaker on the topic of the history of flora in the Puget Sound area. We are honored to have her be the keynote speaker at our annual meeting.

Proposed amendments to Skagit Land Trust by-laws and board elections to be held at the Annual Meeting, March 20, 2009 at Maple Hall.

Each membership has one vote.

There are several proposed changes to the by- laws that will be presented to the membership and will be voted on during the business meeting segment. The proposed changes can be found on-line at www.skagitlandtrust.org and will also be available at the meeting.

Board Elections

The following people are up for election or re-election for 3-year terms to Skagit Land Trust’s board of directors:

Ron Feld (re-election), David Hall (re-election), Mark Hitchcock (re-election), Rusty Kuntze (re-election), Keith Wiggers (re-election), Dr Steve Johnson (election), Brenda Cunningham (election). Short biographies of these individuals can be found on our website and will be presented at the Annual Meeting. 8 Thank You for Your Support

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Mission Statement Skagit Land Trust conserves wildlife habitat, wetlands, agriculture and forest lands, scenic open space and shorelines for the benefit of our community and as a legacy for future generations.

Saving Land for Tomorrow

Upcoming Events

March 20th - Annual Meeting at Maple Hall, La Conner - 6-9pm Guest speaker: Dr. Estella Leopold

June 27th - Land Steward Hosted Van Tour Middle Skagit River

August 15th - Annual Picnic at Schoolhouse Park, Guemes Island – 1-4pm Tours of Guemes Mountain 10am - noon shuttle transportation from ferry will be available

September 17th - Conservation Breakfast at CottonTree Inn, Mount Vernon – 7-8:30am “Natural Skagit” has received enthusiastic support from the community, selling almost three times as fast as we expected. The book was a Skagit bestseller over the holidays. Thirteen retail outlets now carry “Natural Skagit”, as well as sales in our office and online on our website www.skagitlandtrust.org. All proceeds go directly to land conservation.