Land Stewardship
Help care for the lands upon which our sustainable future depends.
From neighborhood parks stewarded by volunteers, to managing our iconic conserved landscapes, to restoring river and floodplain habitat along the Cedar and Duwamish Rivers, your support takes care of the lands we all love.
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Green City Partnerships
In cities throughout the region, we engage community volunteers to restore public lands in urban areas to help restore and maintain our urban parks while building community and an ethics of stewardship throughout cities in our region.
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Forterra lands stewardship and restoration
We care for and tend to the lands and conservation easements Forterra is responsible for in 12 counties to enhance their ecological and community value.
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Riparian corridors
We restore the riparian and floodplain habitat along our critical waterways: the Cedar River, Green-Duwamish River, Bear Creek Watershed, and Skykomish River.
When I see a child having a real encounter with a tree that she’s planting, or when I hear someone at a work party saying, ‘This is the first time I’ve ever picked up a shovel,’ that’s why I get out of bed in the morning.
Related Perspectives and News
10th Annual Duwamish Alive!
Forterra celebrated the 10th annual Duwamish Alive! restoration event by hosting over 180 volunteers at two sites along the Duwamish River.
Is Anyone Here a Nurse (Log)?
We here in the Pacific Northwest are very lucky to have true old-growth forests in our midst, where Douglas Firs, Western Hemlocks, and Western Red Cedars have been standing for hundreds of years.
Breaking ground on I-90’s first wildlife overpass
The wildlife overpass project will provide safe passage to wildlife, widen the freeway to six lanes and redirect avalanches under the highway and is a milestone in both transportation and wildlife policy
Forterra completes sale of Dead Man’s Pond in Puyallup
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TACOMA – Forterra has completed the sale of 5 acres of urban wildlife habitat known as Dead…
700 acres of wildlife habitat near Easton conserved
Forterra and partners conserved nearly 700 acres of wildlife habitat in the Upper Kittitas Valley in December 2014. On December…
Triple Creek Ranch easement Kittitas’ largest
Forterra and Kittitas County permanently conserved Triple Creek Ranch with the purchase of a 260-acre working-farmland conservation easement, the largest…
Urban forest benefits quantified in new report
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