This spring, about 150 Skagit County students were expected to descend onto the mudflats of Padilla Bay to help document the presence of the spiral-shelled snail that dots the beach at low tide through the Kids on the Beach Program.
With students sent home in March for their safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that didn’t happen.
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