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The Swinomish Channel is partly natural and partly dredged. [4] Before being dredged, it was a collection of shallow tidal sloughs, salt marshes, and mudflats known as Swinomish Slough. The United States Army Corps of Engineers used dredging and diking to create a navigable channel, completed in 1937 during the Great Depression. [4]
The Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is an area of 8,004 acres (32 km 2) of estuary located in Skagit County.The reserve contains the Breazeale Interpretive Center, which features exhibits about the natural history and ecology of the estuary and bay, fish tanks, a hands-on room and a video theater.
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May 18—SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole's journey ...
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The Swinomish Indian Reservation is the reservation and land body of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The reservation is located on Puget Sound, on the southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington. [17] It is located on the Swinomish Channel, across from La Conner, Washington. [8]
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To the east, it is separated from the mainland by the Swinomish Channel, and from Whidbey Island to the south by Deception Pass. The island is named after the Spanish explorer and cartographer Salvador Fidalgo, who explored the area in 1790. Its largest and only city is Anacortes with a population of 17,637 at the time of the 2020 census. [1]