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Skagit Valley Becomes Fertile Garden of Skagit County
Skagit County profile praises Skagit Valley as a premier farming region. It describes Mount Baker and the Skagit River shaping the land, the construction of dikes, and the transformation from forests and swamps to grain fields. Stanwood to Mount Vernon linked by expanding agriculture and La Conner Flats highlighted. (Continued on page 12).
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Skagit Valley
Washington
Skagit County
Hand of Nature
Mount Baker
Skagit
Puget Sound
Acre
Nile
Skagit Flats
Tangl
Snohomish
Stanwood
Mount Vernon
Olympic Marsh
Skagit River
la Conner
Captain Conner