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- Skagit River - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Skagit River is a river in Canada and the United States. It flows about 120 miles (190 km) from British Columbia to the state of Washington, where it flows into the Pacific Ocean north of Seattle. The river begins by flowing south. It then enters North Cascades National Park, where it is dammed by Ross Dam, which forms Ross Lake, a reservoir.
- Skagit River | Rivers.govThe Skagit River, in northwest Washington, is the largest and most biologically important river draining to Puget Sound. The Skagit River System includes a portion of the Skagit River from Bacon Creek downstream to just east of the town of Sedro Woolley, which is classified as recreational.
- Skagit River - Western Rivers ConservancyThe Skagit is the largest river flowing into the Puget Sound and historically produced a whopping 30 percent of the sound’s anadromous fish. The Sauk is the most natural river system in the Cascade Range, and the Suiattle and Cascade Rivers are equally remote and nearly as pristine.
- Skagit River and Delta | The Nature Conservancy in WashingtonThe Skagit River runs from high in the Cascade Mountains to Puget Sound. The Skagit floodplain is one of the richest agricultural areas in the world. Tideflats, estuaries and farm fields draw tens of thousands of Wrangel Island snow geese each winter, as well as trumpeter swans and countless shorebirds on their great migrations.
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