Guest Speaker: Logan Daniels with additional information from Scott Markowitz
The MBPERP is located at the northern end of Browns Bay in Puget Sound. Snohomish County Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in collaboration with Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad is restoring a 1.3 acre pocket estuary where tidal exchange was eliminated by construction of the railroad along the shoreline of Puget Sound in the 1800’s. Subsequent fill for development in the early to mid-1900’s eventually eliminated this essential fish and wildlife habitat. The project is currently under construction, received nearly $7 million worth of grants and has an anticipated completion date of fall 2022.
Logan Daniels is a Parks Engineer for the Snohomish County Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Scott Markowitz coordinates Pilchuck Audubon’s “Avian Habitat Use Monitoring at the Edmonds Marsh” project just a few miles south of this restoration project. He is a Board member of the Puget Sound Bird Observatory and President of the Tahoma Audubon Chapter.