The conservation component of the Yakima Canyon Scenic Byway project got a $30,000 boost from the outdoor recreation industry this week. Download the PDF.
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City People’s Garden Store in Seattle is taking seriously its commitment to the environment by pledging to stop selling any of the invasive plants or noxious weeds that appear on King County’s Noxious Weed and plants of Concern lists, and
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A coalition of conservation minded lobbyists is meeting this week with Washington state’s congressional delegation to support funding for a program that helped fund a Dewatto Forest conservation easement straddling the Kitsap-Mason county line. Read the full article online or
Forterra has purchased 128 acres of high-quality estuarine and forest land on Willapa Bay in Pacific County for permanent conservation. The property, known as Sunshine Coast, includes one mile of shoreline and is located near the point where the Naselle
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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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Kitsap County has purchased 535 acres of forestland and 1.5 miles of shoreline on Port Gamble Bay for permanent conservation. It is the first acquisition of the multi-year Kitsap Forest & Bay Project, and has tremendous community benefit. The purchase
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Forterra has purchased 120-acres of high-quality estuarine, riparian and forest land near Willapa Bay in Pacific County for permanent conservation. Ownership of the land was transferred to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) for long-term management and stewardship.
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The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), and Forterra today announced the purchase of 50,272 acres in the headwaters of the Yakima Basin watershed that are being designated as the Teanaway Community
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For decades, conservationists and developers struggled to gain a foothold in the iconic watershed that may soon be one of Washington state’s largest ever land purchases. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
You might look across the Chehalis River to south Aberdeen and see only the old docks and what’s left of what Weyerhaeuser left behind when it closed its sawmill. Captain Les Bolton looks across the river and sees Seaport Landing,
Squint and you can see more than Seaport Landing Read More »
