Land Trust Purchases 6 Acres of Upper Mallard Cove
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 for just under $200,000, features forested wetlands, which supply freshwater to feed Mallard Cove’s pocket estuary year-round through groundwater flow.
“Pocket estuaries in the Puget Sound are critically important for juvenile salmon that are migrating out from the rivers where they were born and getting ready to head out into the ocean to live their adult lives,” said Jeanette Dorner, executive director of the Nisqually Land Trust.
The Nisqually Land Trust’s first project to protect Mallard Cove was completed in 1998, which protected 46 acres of the cove’s nearshore forest, mudflats, and beaches.
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