MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Eighty volunteers showed up to an ocean shoreline in Skagit County to plant trees that will enhance salmon habitat.

The event was hosted by the Skagit Conservation District.

The volunteers Saturday planted 1,400 native Sitka spruce, crabapple and shore pine on a 3-acre strip on March Point southeast of Anacortes.

Young salmon migrating from rivers use the area as a safe place to feed before reaching saltwater.

Volunteer Jim Johnson says trees provide shade to help keep the water cool and filter pollutants. Leaf debris feeds insects eaten by fish.

The land is owned by Shell Puget Sound Refinery.