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Kiket Island Conservation Acquisition
- Status
- Funded in 2009
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and the Trust for Public Land will use this grant to buy the 96-acre Kiket Island to expand Deception Pass State Park. Directly east of Deception Pass and within the boundaries of the Swinomish Reservation, Kiket Island is a peninsula connected to Fidalgo and Flagstaff Islands by sand bars. This acquisition will protect important near-shore habitat for endangered Skagit River salmon and provide the public access to the waterfront for passive recreation and environmental education. Protecting Kiket from development will benefit diverse shoreline habitat including bluffs, kelp and eelgrass that support Chinook, chum and coho salmon, steelhead and bull trout. Herring, surf smelt, and sand lance, which are eaten by salmon or salmon prey, spawn along Kiket Island. A rare and high functioning pocket estuary offers important habitat to juvenile salmonids, forage fish and numerous waterfowl and shorebirds. Seattle City Light owned the property in the 1970s with plans to build a nuclear power plant. The island remains mostly undeveloped. The Washington State Parks and Recreation commission will contribute $235,325 from a private grant and donations of labor and materials. This project was funded in October.
What is the WWRP?
The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program (WWRP) is a state grant program that creates and conserves local and state parks, wildlife habitat and working farms. The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office administers WWRP grants, and the legislature funds the program.
