Watershed to Sea Discovery Point
Map Location #9
The health of our marine ecosystems is dependent on the health of the surrounding watersheds. Fidalgo Island sits in the central area of a large inland sea known as the Salish Sea. For many years, we defined this sea in terms of Canadian and US bodies of water and managed it as Puget Sound, North Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca and Georgia Strait. Today, we realize that the Salish Sea does not recognize individual boundaries and must be viewed as one large estuary and inland sea.