Introducing Destination HISTORY!! A new regular feature written and produced by Resident Historian Feliks Banel highlighting interesting places within an hour or two by car from Seattle. Check out this weeks about Skagit Bay Estuary and Craft Island
“Before that, it was just an island out to the marsh, but now it’s become an island out to the riverbank,” and thus has become a more popular destination for estuary visitors, Rotton said.by Richard Blumenthal, are unknown. “In 1962,” Blumenthal writes, “the U.S. Board on Geographic Names chose the name ‘Craft Island’ over the variant ‘Delta Rocks,’ as Craft was in ‘undisputed local usage.’”, and the Lower Skagit River has been home to Indigenous people since time immemorial.
“At high tide, the Indians paddled their canoes wherever they wished over what are now the finest farms in Washington,” Jennings writes. “The marsh was ramified” – or spread out – “by countless sloughs, big and little, many of them long since filled and cultivated over. In the summer, tule, cattail, and coarse salt grass flourished and it was the home of many thousands of wild fowl and muskrats—an ideal hunting ground for Indians.
Belinda Rotton says the Washington State Department of Game, the predecessor to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife, began acquiring land in the Skagit Estuary in 1944. Prior to that, Rotton says, the federal government’s US Fish and Wildlife Service had been acquiring land, perhaps with the intent to designate a National Wildlife Refuge. Those plans were scrapped at some point, and the publicly owned Skagit Estuary lands have been managed by the state ever since.
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