We acknowledge that we gather on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed and paddled its waters from time immemorial. We express our deep gratitude for the first people, our Indigenous neighbors, the Lummi Nation and Nooksack people, past, present, and future, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways. In recognizing the first people of this area, we honor their legacy, lives, descendants, resiliency and culture in all that we do on their ancestral and traditional land and waters.