Ten years ago, the then Cascade Land Conservancy launched The Cascade Agenda, a bold plan to conserve 1.3 million acres of forest and farm land in Washington State while fostering healthy growth in cities and towns. It was big news. […]
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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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After five years of restoration work on the Cedar River and its tributaries, the collaborative Stewardship in Action (SiA) program is celebrating as the riverbanks have begun to show signs of recovery. In 2010 the Cedar River and its residents
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More than 150 acres along the Puyallup River will be preserved forever as farmland and wildlife habitat. It’s the biggest agriculture conservation deal in the history of Pierce County. The farmland has been in the Matlock family since the mid-1940s.
In record deal, more than 150 acres of farmland preserved in Pierce County Read More »
Two Puyallup Valley farm families have bought 116 acres of prime valley soil in the last piece of a deal to keep suburban development away and complete the largest agriculture conservation project in Pierce County history. The Sidhu family of
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Pierce County and Forterra ensured this week that one of the largest farms in Pierce County will be farmed for generations to come by removing development rights through a conservation easement. Through a deal crafted by Forterra, Pierce County made
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Farmers markets are very popular in the Puget Sound area, but local farm land is getting harder to find. It’s too expensive for new farmers, and the old ones are retiring. Sixty years ago, life around Ivan Matlock’s farm in
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Forterra signed a purchase and sale agreement with Pope Resources to protect 175 forested acres as a nature preserve and a link in the Sound to Olympics Trail on Jan. 22, 2015. The property will be part of the new
Agreement reached to grow Grovers Creek Preserve Read More »
Forterra and partners conserved nearly 700 acres of wildlife habitat in the Upper Kittitas Valley in December 2014. On December 20th, Forterra purchased the 640-acre Cole Creek property from Plum Creek Timber Company and transferred it to the Washington Department
700 acres of wildlife habitat near Easton conserved Read More »
Channeled through dozens of outdoor recreation and environmental groups, government agencies and local tribes, momentum has been building for more than a decade to buy and preserve nearly 7,000 forested acres stretching from Kingston to Port Gamble and up north
“Big vision” paying off for effort to protect 7,000 acres Read More »
