The City of Anacortes and Skagit Public Utility District are asking people to conserve water by 10%. The state Department of Ecology sets minimum instream flows for the Skagit River. Those flow levels ...

Don Jenkins/Capital Press Water from the Skagit River pours into a ditch to irrigate crops in northwest Washington. A pump drawing the water must be shut off 12 hours a day. Two irrigation districts ...

Adam M. Sowards - Author, Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands In 1870, a small steamboat called the Linnie slipped into the South Fork Skagit River, ...