In the News

Please browse our press clippings and press releases. Media inquiries can be sent to Executive Director, Joe Kane.

Restoring Ohop Creek - WA Department of Ecology Blog Post  How a community is using Ecology grants to help salmon return Ohop Creek is an important spawning habitat for Chinook salmon. Photo by NOAA. For almost 20 years, the Nisqually Land Trust has been steadily improving habitat in and around Ohop Creek – one... Read more"Restoring Ohop Creek"
Land Trust Acquires Two Key Properties Along Ohop Creek - NISQUALLY LAND TRUST ACQUIRES TWO KEY PROPERTIES ALONG OHOP CREEK Purchases Protect Spawning Beds and Set Stage for Restoration The Land Trust has permanently protected two more properties central to the restoration of Ohop Creek, one of the two main tributaries to the Nisqually River. They include 45 acres of... Read more"Land Trust Acquires Two Key Properties Along Ohop Creek"
How a carbon market is fueling change in the Nisqually Community Forest - By Matthew Smith, KIRO 7 News It’s a hot day. But deep inside the Nisqually Community Forest, there’s no shortage of shade as my photographer and I work our way around skinny trees and toward a pair of researchers. A familiar cracking and popping sound echoes around us as we walk... Read more"How a carbon market is fueling change in the Nisqually Community Forest"
Land Trust Purchases 6 Acres of Upper Mallard Cove - Land Trust Purchases 6 Acres of Upper Mallard Cove By Daniel Warn /  The Nisqually Land Trust recently purchased 6 acres of undeveloped forest at the top of the Mallard Cove west bluff to protect the land in perpetuity. The land, obtained from Douglas and Julia Hart in a sale... Read more"Land Trust Purchases 6 Acres of Upper Mallard Cove"
Nisqually Watershed – To Protect and Preserve - To Protect and Preserve The activism around the Nisqually watershed — the 460,000 acres surrounding the Nisqually River, from Mount Rainier to the Sound — in the last 60 years has resulted in one of the most pristinely preserved environments in the state. Still, the Nisqually Tribe and its allies... Read more"Nisqually Watershed – To Protect and Preserve"