Little Skookum Ecosystem
left|300px The Little Skookum Ecosytem is a small rain-fed catchment and coastal embayment located in western South Puget Sound, and could be part of the greater Totten Inlet Ecosystem including Oyster Bay and Kennedy Creek to the South. The watershed is the center of the Squaxin Island Tribe, once the territory of the T’Peeksin Band. Highway 101 crosses the mouth of Skookum Creek midway between City of Olympia and City of Shelton. Highway 108 runs up the valley crossing over the low divide into Wildcat Creek, in the Cloquallum Creek Watershed in the Chehalis River Basin. To the north is the Mill Creek Watershed in the Hammersley Inlet Ecosystem, The watershed has extensive Shellfish Aquaculture activities in the shallow Skookum Inlet, as well as both large and small private Forestry holdings. The watershed has a low human population density and includes a well-studied Cutthroat Trout population. Approximately 500 people live in the watershed, and the watershed is on a state highway between McCleary and the tribal center of the Squaxin Island Tribe.
Relationships
- related to: Shellfish Aquaculture
- related to: Southern Resident Killer Whales
- related to: alta forest products
- related to: chehalis river
- related to: city of everett
- related to: cutthroat trout
- related to: forestry
- related to: greiner 2010 principles strategic conservation
- related to: henderson inlet ecosystem
- related to: mason conservation district (mcd)
- related to: port susan bay ecosystem
- related to: south puget sound
- related to: squalichew creek estuary
- related to: taylor shellfish company
- related to: totten inlet ecosystem
- related to: washington state department of ecology
- related to: wdnr
- related to: whatcom county
- related to: wwrp