Resource Library
Our library contains a collection of materials from projects and meetings brought to you by the Northwest Straits Commission and the seven Marine Resources Committees. Please contact Commission staff if you are unable to find what you are looking for online.
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Northwest Project: MRC Administration and Operations- Plastic Cap Recycling Art Project
The Skagit County Marine Resources Committee (MRC) partnered with several other organizations, businesses, and community volunteers to help create large murals made out of recycled caps and lids. The murals were used as an educational platform to carry out the message about plastics, how plastics can harm the marine environment, and how we can all make a difference by applying the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) to our daily lives. Here is a comprehensive report on the project.
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Skagit County
Length: 30
Community Beach Seining at Ship Harbor, Fidalgo Island, Washington, 2011 and 2012
The purpose of the Community Beach Seining project is to facilitate citizen science and provide education and outreach activities in local communities by using interested community volunteers to collect fish monitoring data. Beach seining at Ship Harbor is continuing, in part, the fish sampling initiated at this location in 2010 as part of Skagit County Marine Resources Committee’s (Skagit MRC) Cannery Pond Evaluation Project.
By: Paul Dinnel and Jude Apple, Shannon Point Marine Center
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Skagit County
Length: 22
Shannon Point Rip Rap Map
This is aerial view of the Shannon Point Rip Rap map with 2' Contour Intervals.
By: GIS City of Anacortes
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Benchmark: Marine Habitat
Location: Skagit County
Length: 1
March Point Outfall Survey Map
This is a Outfall Survey Map of March Point from April 2002.
By: Tesoro Northwest Company
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Skagit County
Length: 1
Juvenile Salmon and Nearshore Fish Use in Shallow Intertidal Habitat Associated with Cornet Bay
Island County Beach Watchers, Island County MRC and Washington State Parks. Collecting data about juvenile salmonid use of the nearshore at Cornet Bay is a part of the characterization process of the bay prior to nearshore habitat enhancement projects that are occurring at this location. The focus of this report is on fish abundance and size in Cornet Bay in 2011. This report is meant to inform local citizens and Cornet Bay project partners about fish populations.
By: Sarah Schmidt, Island County Beach Watchers, Island County MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Island County
Length: 14
Northwest Straits Initiative Annual Report 2011
The annual report for the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative for the year 2011.
By: Northwest Straits, Caroline Gibson
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Benchmark: All
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 16
Snohomish County MRC 2011 Annual Report and Recommendations
Annual Report of the Snohomish County Marine Resources Committee for 2011.
By: Snohomish County, Kathleen Herrmann
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Benchmark: All
Location: Snohomish County
Length: 17
Aerial and Underwater Videography Assessments of Eelgrass in Island County
This is a report presenting the findings of eelgrass bed monitoring in Island County, specifically Holmes Harbor, Penn Cove, and Cornet Bay in 2012. The information was collected via underwater video, as well as aerial photography of submerged vegetation at low tides
By: Gregg M. Ridder & Island County Beach Watchers
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Benchmark: Marine Habitat
Location: Island County
Length: 33
Community Spartina Education and Stewardship Program: 2012 Final Report
This is the 2012 Final Report to the Skagit County MRC for the Community Spartina Education and Stewardship Program.
By: Rachel Benbrook & Keeley O'Connell
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Skagit County
Length: 8
Skagit County Marine Resources Committee 2011 Annual Report
2011 annual report of the Skagit County Marine Resources Committee
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Skagit County
Length: 17
Salish Sea Spartina Survey and Removal
In 2010, the Skagit MRC partnered with People For Puget Sound for a regional Spartina survey program that would expand the survey program to the Olympic Peninsula. This additional funding would also be used to support surveys in Whatcom County, where the proximity to BC’s expanding Spartina infestations in Boundary Bay raises concerns of re-infestation from the northern reaches of the Salish Sea. People For Puget Sound has included in this report comprehensive survey results that include work do
By: Rachel Benbrook and Keeley O’Connell, People For Puget Sound
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Benchmark: Marine Habitat
Location: Skagit County
Length: 33
2011 Pigeon Guillemot Study
2011 marks the fourth year of the Pigeon Guillemot survey. This monitoring entails prey choice, frequency of burrow deliveries and fledging success. In the years 2008, 2009, and 2010 colonies at 5 beaches were surveyed: Shore Meadows, Harrington Lagoon North, Harrington Lagoon South, Mutiny Sands and Rolling Hills.
By: Govinda Rosling
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Island County
Length: 15
Island MRC Aerial Eelgrass Surveys
This is an aerial photography task put together by pilot Gregg Ridder. Gregg developed a system to remotely take pictures from the planes cabin with a camera mounted under the wing. These pictures are then used to monitor eelgrass and kelp beds in the Salish Sea.
By: Gregg Ridder
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Benchmark: Marine Habitat
Location:
Length: 0
March's Point Restoration - Baseline Survey Report
In May and June 2011, Washington State University Skagit County Beach Watchers carried out a baseline survey at the restoration site March's Point
By: Tim Manns
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Benchmark: All
Location: Skagit County
Length: 5
Soft Shore Alternatives to Stabilization Display
A new display was developed to promote soft shore alternatives to bulkheads to be used at the Watershed Stewardship Resource Center and at local outreach events.
By: Jefferson MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 2
San Juan County MRC 2011 Annual Report
San Juan County MRC 2011 Annual Report
By: San Juan MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: San Juan County
Length: 7
Outreach display of 'Whatcom's Wealth' Treasured shores and nearshore neighbors
A display about the importance of local marine habitats and species, shoreline access and activities, and ways to reduce negative impacts.
By: Whatcom MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 2
Investigation into the Historic Status of Cannery Pond and its Potential as a Future Pocket Estuary
The goal of this project was to conduct research designed to answer the question: “Was Cannery Pond historically a pocket estuary with a channel connection to the marine waters of Guemes Channel?”
By: Paul Dinnel, Hanna Seyl
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Benchmark: All
Location: Skagit County
Length: 52
Groundwater Quality Monitoring in the Shallow Aquifer near Sequim, Clallam County, WA
Phase II purpose was to investigate groundwater quality in the shallow aquifer draining to streams and marine waters of the Dungeness watershed. Dual objectives included determining (a) the ambient quality of shallow groundwater for a broad region (determined by the MRC as east of the Dungeness River down gradient from City of Sequim), as well as (b) the concentrations of specific stormwater contaminants for wells found in Phase I to be vulnerable to land activities.
By: Ann Soule, L.Hg.
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Benchmark: Marine Water Quality
Location: Clallam County
Length: 36
Island County Interpretive Nearshore Signage Installation - Port Susan Bay
Island County Interpretive Nearshore Signage Installation - Port Susan Bay
By: Island MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Island County
Length: 2
Kayak Point Restoration Conceptual Site Design
Site design for Kayak Point park restoration
By: Snohomish County
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Benchmark: All
Location: Snohomish County
Length: 2
Voluntary Shellfish Protection Zone Mystery Bay Sign
The Jefferson MRC developed outreach materials (signage, banner and brochures) to inform boaters about the need to protect water quality for shellfish harvest.
By: Jefferson MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 2
Stewardship Connections Online Newsletter
Stewardship Connections Online NewsletteR
By: San Juan MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: San Juan County
Length: 14
Project Title Deepwater Pacific Sand Lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) Habitat Evaluation and Prediction in the Northwest Straits Region
The goal of this project was to obtain new information on sub-tidal life history parameters of Pacific sand lance (PSL) (Ammodytes hexapterus) in the Northwest Straits region.
By: H. Gary Greene, Tina Wyllie-Echeverria, Don Gunderson, Joe Bizzarro, Vaughn Barrie, Kurt Fresh, Cliff Robinson, David Cacchione, Dan Penttila, Monty Hampton, Adam Summers
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 75
Low Impact Development in Skagit County Brochure
Brochure on low impact development resources, practices and information in Skagit County.
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Skagit County
Length: 7