A conservation group and a timberland owner have reached a purchase agreement to protect hundreds of forested acres and more than a mile of shoreline on Puget Sound’s Kitsap Peninsula. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
Deal struck to preserve peninsula shoreline and forestland Read More »
The Duwamish River in Tukwila is getting a little more breathing room each week as a coalition of volunteers from eight companies make caring for the river banks part of their job description. Read the full article online or download
Coalition of volunteers cleaning up the Duwamish River Read More »
It turns out that the sky hasn’t fallen on Forterra’s effort to buy 6700 acres of Port Gamble forest from Pope Resources after all. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
Forterra moves closer to saving Port Gamble’s sweetest forests Read More »
An agreement covering 43,000 acres of the White River Forest east of Enumclaw will push King County beyond its admirable goal to put 200,000 acres of forestland into a productive, protected stewardship. Read the full article online or download the
Editorial: Working forest, protected forest along King County’s White River Read More »
Forterra purchased 344-acres of forest land along Sawmill Creek from Plum Creek Timber Company for permanent conservation in December 2012. The Sawmill Creek property was the largest privately-owned swath of old growth forest left in the Green River Valley and
Old growth forest protected in Tacoma’s watershed Read More »
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
Pristine estuary conservation increases habitat Read More »
A new program aims to protect Snohomish County’s farms and forests while concentrating building activity elsewhere. The transfer of development rights program creates a marketplace for building credits. Owners of farm and forest lands can sell these credits and continue
County OKs sales of rights to conserve farm, forest lands Read More »
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
With fundraising lagging and a deadline six months away, Olympic Property Group President Jon Rose has proposed some ways to lower the price of 7,000 acres in North Kitsap that a coalition wants to buy for conservation and public open
Proponents, OPG consider options for North Kitsap land buy Read More »
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
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