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The Nature Conservancy is working on a new and creative forest restoration project on Cle Elum Ridge, called the βHow Go Unit,β within the Central Cascades Forest. This βselective thinningβ project will reduce fire risk, create healthy forests and support recreational access and natural habitat.
Congresswoman Kim Schrier, MD, an original sponsor of the bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021, visited Cascadia TREX this week to see prescribed fire in action.
Weβre working to protect the Taneum Watershed in the ancestral territory of the Yakama Indian Nation: home to rare and endangered fish and wildlife species, headwaters of the Yakima River, and epic recreational opportunities.
Herman Flamenco is joining our Forest team as the Conservation Forester for the Central Cascades.
A small but significant 80-acre acquisition at our Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington protects the headwaters of this 8,000-acre watershed where weβve been working for more than 20 years.
The new property was harvested about five years ago, leaving our Preserve vulnerable to high winds on its boundary that blew down trees, and sediment runoff into Ellsworth Creek. With the acquisition, made possible by generous private donors, weβll be able to restore it.
In alignment with Gov. Jay Insleeβs decision to partially reopen state recreational lands incorporating social distancing guidelines, lands owned or managed by The Nature Conservancy in Washington will reopen May 5 with some important exceptions.
Both the Yellow Island Preserve in the San Juans and the popular Bluff Trail at the Robert Y. Pratt Preserve at Ebeyβs Landing on Whidbey Island, will remain closed for the safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors, and for preservation of fragile lands.
Lloyd McGee successfully maintains a network of forest collaboratives that develop pathways to forest restoration planning and implementation through empowering stakeholder partnership engagement with agency partners
The US Senate has approved a bipartisan bill to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Thanks to the leadership of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and colleagues across the country, the bill to ensure the conservation of our shared public lands and waters for generations of Americans to come now heads to the House.
Please join us in crafting a new recreation vision of the Teanaway Community Forest plan by submitting your comments.
Fire is a natural part of our Eastern Washington landscapes, and we use prescribed burns as a tool to return fire to our forests in a controlled and deliberate way.
Featured Work
Learning to Live with fire
Across the Pacific Northwest, we are experiencing longer, and more intense fire seasons driven by increasingly warmer and drier conditions in our forests. As temperatures increase, our forests are becoming more vulnerable to high-intensity fires.
But fire can be essential. As an ecological and cultural process, fire has shaped the diversity of life on this planet for millennia. Our strategy seeks to restore balance to the system by reframing the issue: we must learn to live safely with fire β embrace and manage it as a natural and necessary process.