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The Nooksack Delta: Environmental Impact Assessment, Janet Clark, Mike Van Dooren, Thomas Duncan, Linda Ecklund, Joyce Mercuri, Louise Munson, V. Fate Putman, Chris Tiffany

College of the Environment Graduate and Undergraduate Publications

This report was produced by 9 students of the Environmental Impact Assessment course at Huxley College of Environmental Studies,over a period of 7 weeks in the spring of 1981. In this study, we have attempted to provide an assessment of the natural and cultural environmental conditions of the delta of the Nooksack River, and to determine impacts upon that area both presently and in the near future.

The present-day delta of the Nooksack River is located in the western portion of Whatcom County, Washington, where the Nooksack River discharges into Bellingham Bay. The delta lies about 3 1/2 miles west …