- The Skagit Headquarters Unit is tidal marsh (estuary) on Fir Island, west of and adjacent to Freshwater Slough. The unit is predominantly vegetated by cattail and sedge and used extensively by waterfowl and other waterbirds, shorebirds, raptors, and passerines.
- Life on the Mississippi (Wikipedia)
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.