S
cott Boyd is walking through deep mud near the mouth of the Stillaguamish River, on Puget Sound about 30 miles north of Seattle.
This landscape changed dramatically in October when the Stillaguamish Tribe removed two miles of earthen levee. The ridge of dirt kept the river and the tides from spreading onto nearby farmland. Once a giant excavator bit into the levee, the tribe welcomed tidewater onto the land for the first time in over a century…