The city of Mukilteo’s purchase of the 98 acre property was the culmination of a long, grassroots campaign to save the area and, by extension, enshrine the narrative of turn of the century Japanese immigrants. Read the full article online […]
The City of Mukilteo has purchased 98 acres within Japanese Gulch for $5.4 million dollars from the court-ordered Metropolitan Mortgage liquidation trust. The acquisition will permanently preserve the gulch for community park uses and resolve the potential for conflicting industrial
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Kitsap County has purchased 535 acres of forestland and 1.5 miles of shoreline on Port Gamble Bay for permanent conservation. It is the first acquisition of the multi-year Kitsap Forest & Bay Project, and has tremendous community benefit. The purchase
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The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), and Forterra today announced the purchase of 50,272 acres in the headwaters of the Yakima Basin watershed that are being designated as the Teanaway Community
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The Snohomish County Council unanimously adopted an update to the County’s Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program on Sept. 4, 2013. The updates make the program a more effective tool for conservation and development, and contribute to regional sustainability. County
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For decades, conservationists and developers struggled to gain a foothold in the iconic watershed that may soon be one of Washington state’s largest ever land purchases. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
You might look across the Chehalis River to south Aberdeen and see only the old docks and what’s left of what Weyerhaeuser left behind when it closed its sawmill. Captain Les Bolton looks across the river and sees Seaport Landing,
Squint and you can see more than Seaport Landing Read More »
Forterra and Pope Resources signed a purchase and sale agreement Wednesday for 535 acres of forestland and 1.5 miles of shoreline along Port Gamble Bay and State Route 104. Read the full article online or download the PDF.
Forterra signs purchase agreement for Port Gamble shoreline block Read More »
Hundreds of cellphones were held aloft in the spirit of conservation solidarity before busy fingers sent the above text to Washington lawmakers. Combining public and private dollars to acquire thousands of acres in the Teanaway River Valley near Cle Elum
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.
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