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October 4, 2012

Tulalip Tribe turns farmland back into salt marsh

  • The Qwuloolt Estuary near Marysville is being restored by moving a lot of dirt around the 380-acre site.
    • By LUCY BODILLY
    Special to the Journal

    Photo courtesy of Tulalip Tribes [enlarge]
    Volunteers plant trees that will enhance wetlands as part of the Qwuloolt Estuary restoration project.

    A complex series of mitigation efforts spanning more than 18 years is allowing the final phase of the $11 million Qwuloolt Estuary restoration project, located three miles from the Snohomish River's outlet into Possession Sound, to be completed.


     
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