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The land that hosts Glenwood Springs Salmon Hatchery was first homesteaded in 1875 by the James Francis Tulloch family. Like much of the San Juan Islands, its 300 acres were the site of a thriving fruit-orchard operation from the 1870s through the early 20th century, when newly available irrigation moved most fruit growing east of the Cascades.

Soon after Jim and Kathy Youngren purchased the property in 1977, Jim's fascination with salmon and salmon-recovery efforts—combined with the presence of a stream that flowed into a bay off East Sound—led him to undertake a low-tech, natural-rearing hatchery operation, in conjunction with the Washington State Department of Fisheries (now the Department of Fish and Wildlife), to see if a new chinook run could be established.

The return of the first adults in 1982, and the ensuing propagation of the run from returning fish, validated the concept. By the mid-1980s, with the new chinook run going strong, Youngren joined forces with several like-minded individuals, including those involved in a fish- and habitat-restoration project on the Wishkah River, to found Long Live the Kings. LLTK, with Youngren as chairman of its board, took over management of Glenwood Springs Salmon Hatchery in 1985.