This view is from Talking Field 3 and the location of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife's Fir Island Goose Reserve. 225 acres on the south side of Fir Island Road are owned by the state and leased to farmers to plant, providing crops for winter snow goose forage. The area is part of the Skagit River delta with Dry Slough at the east and Brown's Slough on the west. In the late 1800's, following human settlement, dikes were built and the land was converted to farm use.
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