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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Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine this morning rallied support for proposed development incentives billed as bringing more jobs and residents to downtown Seattle while preserving rural farms and forestland. Read the full article online or …
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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 …
Olympic Property Group and the state Department of Natural Resources are expected to have an agreement in place this summer for the cleanup of the waters adjacent to the Port Gamble mill site. Read the full article online or download …
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 …
Conserved 274 acres of working land north of Ellensburg through a conservation easement on Hairpin Ranch. The easement allows the property to remain working land – no matter the owner.
In collaboration with partners, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the 4,500 acres of Cowiche Creek is now permanently protected and part of the larger Oak Creek Wildlife Area.
Due to the major storm in late January, one of the beaver dams in Hazel Wolf Wetlands Preserve burst. The rupture resulted in a lowering of the preserve’s water lever by several feet. “A huge change, and unprecedented in my …
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Another 255 acres of prime forestland near Tiger and Mission lakes will be protected from development under a conservation easement purchased with $480,000 in state funds. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
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