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The USGS uses the name "Puget Sound" for its hydrologic unit subregion 1711, which includes areas draining to Puget Sound proper as well as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia, and the Fraser River. [19] Significant rivers that drain to "Northern Puget Sound" include the Nooksack, Dungeness, and Elwha Rivers. The Nooksack empties ...
Puget Sound, its basins, and major surrounding cities. The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of ...
The Nisqually River is the traditional territorial center of the Nisqually tribe, for which it was named, though they also lived throughout southern Puget Sound. [7] The Treaty of Medicine Creek, one of the major Northwest treaties between Washington territory and the native population of Puget Sound, was signed near a creek at the delta of the Nisqually River.
The White River coho salmon are a mixed population of hatchery and wild fish. [4] The Puget Sound chinook salmon evolutionary significant unit (2005), the Puget Sound steelhead distinct population segment (2011), [8] and Puget Sound/Coastal bull trout (1998) are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
The Puyallup River split, emptying into Puget Sound to both the north and the west. [6] Starting around 5,600 years Before Present and continuing to 800 years Before Present , a series of large mudslides from Mount Rainier flowed down the Puyallup River and White River watersheds and filled in the Puyallup and Duwamish Valleys, creating the ...
The Skagit River (/ ˈ s k æ dʒ ɪ t / SKAJ-it) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of 1.7 million acres (690,000 hectares) of the Cascade Range along the northern end of Puget Sound and flows ...
The Baker River (Lushootseed: dxʷqəlb) [3] is an approximately 30-mile (48 km), [1] southward-flowing tributary of the Skagit River in northwestern Washington in the United States. It drains an area of the high North Cascades in the watershed of Puget Sound north of Seattle, and east of Mount Baker.