DESCRIPTION
Through this project, the Whatcom Land Trust acquired a 90 acre parcel at Lily Point including an undeveloped marine shoreline and 40 acres of tidelands located on the southeast corner of Point Roberts, Whatcom County. Fronting Boundary Bay to the east and Georgia Strait to the south, the property is important habitat for Chinook, Sockeye, Coho, Steelhead, Orca whales, Bald eagles, and migratory shore birds and waterfowl. (Maps 1, 2 & 3) The Lily Pt. property includes 4,130 feet of natural shoreline, two exceptional feeder bluffs, a large unstable forested hillside, a 7 acre accretion beach, productive tidelands and mature upland forest and riparian vegetation. Georgia Strait is the primary migration corridor and feeding area for threatened Chinook salmon, Bald eagles and Orca whales. The property was transferred to Whatcom County to be managed by as a marine natural area by Whatcom County Parks. A conservation easement over the site is held by Whatcom Land Trust.