“Small Space” and Balcony gardening is more limited than gardening with access to land, but these small spaces add up and can make a huge difference. Most of us know that bees are effective, and important pollinators. They pollinate both our crops and wild plants, providing us with one-third of the food we eat. The natural food web would collapse without pollinators helping wild plants to produce berries, fruits, seeds, and other edible parts. Unfortunately, pollinators world

Smokey Bear joined wildfire resilience partners at the Guemes Community Center to educate the community on ways to reduce wildfire risk on the island Smokey Bear loves to say that "Only you can prevent wildfires." The people of Guemes Island took this to heart as they worked together with Smokey to reduce wildfire risk on Community Wildfire Preparedness Day  on May 3rd.  This community came together not just to safeguard their own homes, but to help protect the entire island—

by letting your landscape work for you Using thoughtful landscaping techniques can make your yard more efficient. Using the shape of the...

Do you enjoy spending time at the beach, digging clams, learning new skills, and contributing your time to an important community project? The Skagit Conservation District is now seeking interested community volunteers (age 18 and up) to provide support in monitoring local recreational shellfish harvesting beaches. The goal of the Biotoxin Program is to protect humans from illness and death caused by eating shellfish contaminated with biotoxins. Biotoxins are poisons that ar

~Al servicio del condado de Skagit desde 1942~ La misión del Distrito de Conservación de Skagit es brindar soluciones de recursos...

Making the world a better place, one back yard at a time... The Skagit Conservation District Backyard Conservation Short course is a...

It just occurred to me that in my enthusiasm to talk about watersheds, I skipped right over the introductions. So pardon me while I take a step back and do that. We are Skagit Conservation District . Nice to meet you! For those who aren't familiar with Conservation Districts (I hadn't heard about them until I took one of their classes back in 2011), I thought I should explain who we are. Since I've been working here I've met quite a few people who've mistaken us for someon

The autumn winds are blowing through, the rains are flooding the rivers, and there's something fishy going on in our own backyard......

As I said in my last Blog, "All land on earth is a watershed. All our activities play an important role..." You may have notice that the...

All land on earth is a watershed. All our activities play an important role in watersheds, yet few people understand them. Still fewer know how a watershed works or can describe the boundaries of the ones in which they live. A watershed is the land area down which all water flows by networks of channels, that increase in size as the amount of water, sediment, and dissolved materials they must carry increases. Each watershed is an interconnected land-water system that conveys

I was walking around my yard the other day, and discovered a bunch of trash that someone had, apparently, thrown out the window of their...