The Northern Straits Indians developed an extensive fishing technology to harvest the abundant fish of the straits, particularly the many varieties of salmon. Salmon was the most important staple of the Native diet and plentiful with five annual…

Rabbits have a reputation in San Juan Island Historical National Park due to their population explosion. The European rabbits are a non-native, invasive species and accounts of their introduction differ, but generally agree they were first introduced…

George Pickett arrived in the Pacific Northwest a widower, his first wife having died in childbirth when he was stationed in Texas. He was stationed at Fort Bellingham when, in 1857, he married the second Mrs. Pickett, a Haida teenager. Such a…