The Nature Conservancy of Washington
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
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The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.
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PCC Farmland Trust
PCC Farmland Trust secures, preserves and stewards threatened farmland in the Northwest, ensuring that generations of local farmers productively farm using sustainable, organic growing methods.
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Methow Conservancy
The Methow Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring people to care for and conserve the land of the Methow Valley.
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Chelan-Douglas Land Trust
The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust envisions a community that conserves and cherishes our land, our water, and our way of life - now and for generations to come - through voluntary land agreements, education, partnerships, stewardship, and well planned growth.
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Kittitas Conservation Trust
Protect and enhance fish and wildlife habitat, open space, cultural and recreational resources, and scenic views in the Upper Yakima River Basin.
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Blue Mountain Land Trust
Blue Mountain Land Trust is dedicated to protecting for future generations the land we love, working farms and forests, watershed habitat and scenic views through voluntary partnerships with private land owners.
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Cowiche Canyon Conservancy
Mission: to promote a healthy future for our community by conserving our heritage of open space, scenic vistas, and riparian corridors from Yakima to the Cascade foothills, with connected recreation trails and natural landscapes.
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Columbia Land Trust
Columbia Land Trust works to permanently conserve the natural resources of the Columbia River region. We conserve, restore, and manage signature landscapes, vital habitats, and working farms and forests in Oregon and Washington from east of the Cascade Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. These lands are at risk from overdevelopment, unsustainable practices, and other threats. By working positively with landowners and local communities we can sustain the unique qualities of the Pacific Northwest for our children and future generations.
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South of the Sound Community Farmland Trust
Our Mission Promoting vibrant local food and farming systems through community supported farmland preservation strategies, educational outreach, and partnerships that increase opportunities for farms and farmers to flourish.
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Nisqually Land Trust
The Nisqually Land Trust acquires and manages critical lands to permanently protect the water, wildlife, natural areas, and scenic vistas of the Nisqually River watershed.
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Capitol Land Trust
As residents of the southern Puget Sound region, we depend upon and value the watersheds and the wetlands, the agricultural lands, the streams and open spaces, the conifers and creatures unique to our region. These dwindling assets are essential to our quality of life, yet they are disappearing at an unprecedented rate.
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The Chehalis River Basin Land Trust
Our Mission: The mission of the Chehalis River Basin Land Trust is to conserve, protect and restore ecologically significant lands within the Chehalis River Basin.
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Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust
Located in the central Puget Sound basin, Vashon-Maury Island is passionate about retaining a rural and natural character amidst today's rampant development. Vashon-Maury is surrounded by the Puget Sound megalopolis where population has doubled in the past twenty years, and natural places are being paved over as rapidly as possible.
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Great Peninsula Conservancy
is a private nonprofit land trust dedicated to protecting forever the rural landscapes, natural habitats and open spaces of the Great Peninsula of Puget Sound. We conserve pristine shorelines, critical salmon streams, evergreen forests, and wildlife-rich wetlands throughout Kitsap, Mason, and west Pierce counties, Washington. The Conservancy protects wildlands and provides opportunities for people to enjoy them forever. Our work is supported by donations and grants from those committed to preservation of open space, clean water and wild creatures.
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Bainbridge Island Land Trust
The Bainbridge Island Land Trust’s mission is to preserve and steward the diverse natural environment of Bainbridge Island for the benefit of all. To achieve this goal, the Bainbridge Island Land Trust acquires interests in land having significant or potentially significant conservation values such as scenic vistas, wetlands, open spaces, tidelands, forest, unique plant and animal habitats and stream and wildlife corridors. We work with private landowners to protect their land using land protection agreements called conservation easements. We also work with a variety of partners to acquire land for parks, trails and public use.
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The Hoh River Trust
The Hoh River Trust was formed to own and manage river lands along the Hoh River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with an objective to conserve, restore, and enhance these lands for the benefit of fish, wildlife, and people.
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Cascade Land Conservancy
Cascade Land Conservancy fills a unique niche as the largest land conservation, stewardship and community building organization in Washington State. For over 20 years, The Conservancy has led efforts to conserve more than 158,000 acres of forests, farms, shorelines, parks and natural areas. It has partnered with dozens of communities across the region to protect and restore our neighborhood trails and parks and helped cities make smart choices about future growth.
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Whidbey Camano Land Trust
For more than 20 years the Whidbey Camano Land Trust has protected their islands' natural and rural areas by working with private landowners, community groups and public agencies. The Land Trust protected twice as much land in 2006 than in all our previous years combined.
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Skagit Land Trust
Skagit Land Trust was founded in March 1992 by three visionary leaders and 31 Charter Members to help protect the natural lands, open space and wildlife habitat of Skagit County for the benefit of this and future generations. The Trust has grown steadily to become a respected grassroots organization with strong local support and is recognized as an innovative leader in conservation. The six staff, 15 board members and 50 active volunteers are joined by over 1,000 members to protect the most important and beloved land and landscapes in the county. The amount of land and habitat protected by the Trust has grown to more than 5,000 acres including more than 18 miles of shoreline. The Trust is currently working on a dozen new projects under the guidance of a Conservation Strategy that helps protect the best, most at-risk lands first
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Lummi Island Heritage Trust
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving Lummi Island's farmland, forestland, open space, and undeveloped shorelines.
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Whatcom Land Trust
Whatcom Land Trust is a nonprofit organization. We work with local landowners to help protect the natural values and resources of their property. We use a variety of flexible tools to meet a landowners goals. As a qualified nonprofit organization, Whatcom Land Trust accepts gifts of easements for conservation purposes.
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San Juan Preservation Trust
Mission The mission of the San Juan Preservation Trust is to preserve and protect open spaces, scenic views, forests, agricultural lands, habitats, watersheds, riparian corridors, wetlands and shorelines in the San Juan Archipelago.
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Jefferson Land Trust
Jefferson Land Trust is a private, non-profit, grass-roots organization. Our mission is to help the community preserve open space, working lands and habitat in Jefferson County on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
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North Olympic Land Trust
North Olympic Land Trust is a non-profit conservation organization serving the communities of the North Olympic Peninsula. We are working to protect the special qualities of the North Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County, Washington, just outside the internationally treasured Olympic National Park.
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The Cowiche Canyon Trail has become one of Washington State's most successful rails to trails projects. The 3.2 mile long Canyon Trail is enjoyed by thousands of visitors yearly and offers endless recreation and educational opportunities.