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Homeacres Road — The Sunken Island
Sal: Between Homeacres Road and State Route Two-Oh-Four. Sal: Out on the trestle, the road crosses Ebey Island, a large island in the middle of the Snohomish River estuary. Much of the island has sunk under drainage and farming and now sits below sea level, and it is managed as a diking district. Sal: About twelve hundred and seventy acres of the island are a state wildlife area: over eight hundred acres of grassland, and about four hundred of forested swamp, one of the few Sitka spruce swamps left in the Snohomish River estuary. Peggy: A swamp that grew itself back after the 1890s loggers…
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