Great Peninsula Conservancy has successfully completed the 200-acres Newberry Community Forest, which showcases the vision of a community forest that delivers recreation, education, habitat restoration and climate resilience. Join one of their upcoming tours to learn more about the acquisition and benefits of a community forest.
Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC) has taken steps to acquire an important part of the Willapa Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the Willapa Coastal Forest. Nestled in the west coast’s second largest estuary, this property is critical for salmon spawning and rearing. With a purchase agreement signed, WRC will work to secure funding through LWCF.
The Conservation Alliance awarded Columbia Land Trust a $40,000 grant to support their work to protect the 900-acre Nestwood Forest. This multi-benefit project will provide public access, sequester carbon, and preserve critical wetland habitat all while protecting the forest from being converted into development and fragmented.
Whatcom Land Trust just secured the first 550 acres on Stewart Mountain. Identified as one of the most ecologically and geologically sensitive properties on the mountain, restoring forest will have a significant impact on both water quality and quantity.
Whidbey Camano Land Trust just added 40 acres to Lagoon Point Preserve. With plans to create a new public trail network, this is a multi-benefit project that aims to protect one of the largest intact forest and a wildlife corridor on central Whidbey Island.
In Clark County, Columbia Land Trust worked with the Optimistic Club of Vancouver to permanently conserve a forested youth camp which will provide a venue for youth-serving organizations free-of-charge while maintaining the property’s wildlife habitat values.
Forterra has launched a $500,000 fundraising campaign to purchase 765 acres in Kitsap County located within the Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park. Forterra had previously transferred 82 acres of mature forest stands, and ultimately will transfer the land to Kitsap County.
For over four decades, the Boling family has lived and cared for their farm near the historic Ebey’s Reserve. Working with Whidbey Camano Land Trust (WCLT), they placed an easement on the Boling Farm. Adjacent to nearly 200 acres of farm and forested land protected by the National Park Service and WCLT, national reserve lands and farmland blend together…
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Years ago, Gary Miles and his wife Betty made plans to leave their 10-acres forested property on Samish Island to Skagit Land Trust. When Betty passed in 2019 and Gary in 2020, the property came to the land trust in July 2022 along with a stewardship bequest to manage the land. During their lifetime, Betty and…
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Working with longtime partners at the Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI) and the U.S. Navy, Jefferson Land Trust recently acquired a 91-acres property of forest, wetland and streams at the headwaters of Discovery Creek. Working collaboratively with partners like the Navy, NWI and the land trust have permanently protected over 1,200 acres of land in the Tarboo-Dabob Bay Area.