A proposed Pierce County purchase of a two 10-acre forested parcels south of Buckley could give residents access to a forest preserve larger than all but one of the county’s parks. The County Council last week gave its informal approval […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TACOMA – Forterra has completed the sale of 5 acres of urban wildlife habitat known as Dead Man’s Pond to the City of Puyallup. The pond provides habitat to the state’s endangered western pond turtle. The land is
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BOTHELL, February 10, 2016 – Forterra has announced two significant milestones in the campaign to save the Wayne Golf Course from development and — it’s hoped — permanently preserve the area for community benefit, public access, and wildlife habitat. The
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Forterra is interested in financing the purchase of the 89-acre Wayne Golf Course to provide the Bothell community an opportunity to creatively structure a permanent preservation strategy to support a variety of publicly-accessible uses and habitat restoration actions which will put the Wayne land at the very heart of the community.
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The conservation group Forterra has offered to buy the Wayne Golf Course front nine, 50 acres along the Sammamish River in Bothell, and hold the land three years to give the city time to raise the funds to buy it
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The Seattle City Council recognized the Green Seattle Partnership (GSP) and 10 years of successful collaboration between Forterra and the City of Seattle to build this important community resource that works to restore and care for the City’s forested parklands.
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Forterra, a nonprofit formerly known as the Cascade Land Conservancy, purchased the 5-acre property in west Puyallup for $336,000. Forterra will hold the land until the city can gather funds to buy it for public use. The partnership, propped up
Thanks to support from The Russell Family Foundation, Forterra was recently able to acquire five urban wetland acres in southwest Puyallup, known locally as Dead Man’s Pond, with the intention to permanently conserve it through a partnership with the City
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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