Northwest Washington River Access
- Thread starter M_D
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It’s not just exactly like it, because there are no assessment districts for C-post road. That came from god knows where federal tax money, I think. That’s different than the diking and drainage districts that pay to keep up infrastructure on private property that mostly only benefits the landowners in the district.
Now the negative impacts of diking and drainage on fish and water quality—we all “pay” for that.
Before we had the internet, I had all the books and maps to search a lot of skinny water on the wet side of the state. But I found out where the fish all hid from wasting a lot of gas to find where they all went to hide. I did find a lot of water to play around in, plus catch the fish on the wet side that everybody said just weren't here. I guess driving around in the hills paid off for me.
But when I started out looking, I could drive all over the hills on many back roads that are now gated off because people thought you could dump their garbage in the woods and nobody would see it. Wrong. They gated the woods off to stop the red necks from doing it. But that didn't stop the determed ones. I was one time fishing the Sauk near Barlow pass. and I crawled over a log to get to the river and waded into a garbage pit. Is this what you get to find in the woods. It was awful.
But when I started out looking, I could drive all over the hills on many back roads that are now gated off because people thought you could dump their garbage in the woods and nobody would see it. Wrong. They gated the woods off to stop the red necks from doing it. But that didn't stop the determed ones. I was one time fishing the Sauk near Barlow pass. and I crawled over a log to get to the river and waded into a garbage pit. Is this what you get to find in the woods. It was awful.
Hey Mike, I have a Gaia premium subscription. It's been many years since I've been up to the Skagit.
Here is a screenshot of the river near Burlington with the Private Land layer as the highest priority (at the top of the Visible Layers list) and Satellite with Labels map layer. If you have the Premium subscription but the Private Land layer is not visible, on your computer click on the Add Map Layers link at the bottom and tick the check mark to make the layer visible, then move it to the top of the list so it displays over the basemap layer.
Very nice of you, thanks. I’ll see what Ievel I have later today
kerrys
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Another option to determine who owns what is Skagit County’s imap which shows current property ownership and much more…
charles sullivan
Life of the Party
Great link. I have onX, Gaia and the internets. I use all 3 for hunting. In this case, the free info on the internets is what I believe to be the best tool. I am pretty sure the other tools get the majority of their info from the public data.
I am not sure about how the dikes and districts work. I do have a guy though......
Very cool...thanks for sharing the link. For what it's worth, I've gotten no reply whatsoever to my mail to Skagit Co. Public Wrx.
I was doing some more light googling related to this and stumbled on this. Maybe with the name of the relevant Commissioner, combined with a property search, you could track down a responsive contact.
edit, not sure why I can’t paste the link to a list of commissioners but it may not be helpful anyway.