It's true, we're changing our name!

Friends of Skagit Beaches was created in 2007 to mobilize and educate Skagit County residents for the protection and restoration of the marine environment that we live beside. Over the years, our projects have expanded beyond Fidalgo Island and Skagit County. We now have volunteers, members, and donors located in diverse parts of the Puget Sound region.

We discovered that people beyond Fidalgo Island want to contribute their time and resources to Friends. In return, they ask that we provide organized projects and activities that serve their local community too. Growing as an organization has enabled us to have a wider service area and deploy project that have value across the Puget Sound and North Sound areas. Our successful Stormwater Monitoring project does this.

Over the next few years we will develop ways to provide our projects, events, activities and share information with people throughout the Salish Sea region. For that  reason we decided it was time to rename our nonprofit to reflect this broader service area.

We decided to go with the name Friends of the Salish Sea and began the name change process shortly after a vote of our Board of Directors and membership at our Annual Meeting in January 2024.  We learned the process has a lot of steps and organizations to contact.  We are nearing completion of the process and awaiting the final approval from the Internal Revenue Service, which we hope to receive by the end of the year.

We will be transitioning away from this website to a new one at the link below.  We will continue with this transition and recreating some of our legacy content from past projects such as the Skagit Plastics Reduction and Recycling project and Trail Tales.  In the meantime, we suggest you save this link and use the new site starting now!  Thanks to all our members and donors who help to make the work we do possible.

Friends of the Salish Sea