The City of Mukilteo has purchased 98 acres within Japanese Gulch for $5.4 million dollars from the court-ordered Metropolitan Mortgage liquidation trust. The acquisition will permanently preserve the gulch for community park uses and resolve the potential for conflicting industrial […]
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Forterra and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) conserved in perpetuity 162 acres of estuary, freshwater wetlands and forested buffer in Chetlo Harbor along the southeast shore of Willapa Bay. Forterra purchased the property from Hancock Timber Resource
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On Saturday, October 27 from 9 a.m. – noon, hundreds of volunteers, Kent’s mayor and others will join the Green Kent Partnership at the first annual Green Kent Day, a day of volunteer restoration events to celebrate the Partnership’s great
What are Seattle’s trees doing for you? That’s the focus of a new report on the multi-year effort by the Green Cities Research Alliance to examine the environmental value and benefits of Seattle’s urban forest. Seattle’s Forest Ecosystem Values: Analysis
The City of Tukwila and Forterra has closed on a land transaction with a private owner to expand the Duwamish Hill Preserve, a historically, culturally and ecologically significant piece of land along the Duwamish River in north Tukwila. The City
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Thanks to last week’s purchase of a conservation easement by Tacoma Power, approximately 1,850 acres of working timberland and valuable wildlife habitat in the area known as Peterman Hill above Lewis County’s Riffe Lake will be conserved from development in
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It’s a bold idea – and what better place to start than in one of the greenest cities in the United States? That’s the thought behind a new program aimed to recruit businesses large and small to commit to calculating,
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The Kitsap Forest & Bay Project is a community effort to conserve nearly 7,000 acres of forest and 1.8 miles of shoreline in north Kitsap. The landowner, Pope Resources, reached an agreement with environmental organizations and Kitsap County to find
Forterra and Kittitas County permanently conserved Triple Creek Ranch with the purchase of a 260-acre working-farmland conservation easement, the largest completed as of April 17, 2012 in Kittitas County. With the easement in place, the long time family-owned farm outside
Forterra purchased 480 acres of forest habitat for permanent conservation on Dec. 11, 2011. The Mt. Amabilis property, located a few miles northeast of Easton in Kittitas County near the Shore of Kachess Lake, provides critical wildlife habitat and serves
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