Our goal is enhanced habitat forming processes and access to healthy habitat important for juvenile salmon by replacing a man-altered tide gate and inadequate culvert system that currently prevents normal marine flushing and fish access to this estuarine wetland. Swan Lake is a Habitat of Local Importance. SLWPG and partners envision long-term meaningful restoration of this historic pocket estuary for salmon use. Our goal is restoring/enhancing this valuable salt marsh for maximum biodiversity - a unique critical ecosystem - a system relatively intact but threatened by growth of adjacent Oak Harbor watershed.

It is highly likely that restoration of this estuarine wetland will be successful for salmon (among other flora and fauna). Targeted salmon stock include juvenile Chinook, Chum, Coho and Cutthroat seeking forage fish and refuge at this critical junction of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca with influence from the waters of the Strait of Georgia to north. Our vision is to restore a damaged site to health at relatively little expense.