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"
Girl Scouts Tackle Key Nisqually River Restoration Site - Will Earn Silver Awards, Scouting’s Highest Honor When the going gets tough, call the Girl Scouts: Four scouts from troops in Olympia and Steilacoom are tackling the restoration of a critical but much-abused shoreline property the Land Trust recently acquired along the main stem of the Nisqually River, near Yelm.... Read more"Girl Scouts Tackle Key Nisqually River Restoration Site"
Join Us in the Field and On the Water - Nature Walks Join us for our nature walks and enjoy the beauty of our natural areas. Click here to learn more. Nisqually River Float Trips Experience the wildest stretch of the Nisqually River, up close, right on the water! Join the Nisqually Land Trust to float the river’s seldom- seen upper... Read more"Join Us in the Field and On the Water"
PSE Foundation Awards Land Trust $500,000 for Nisqually Community Forest - First-ever Environmental Partnership Grant Saves Final Land Purchase Over a year ago, facing a deadline to come up with nearly a million dollars or lose the opportunity to acquire the crown-jewel property for its Nisqually Community Forest Project, the Land Trust did something it had never done before – took out... Read more"PSE Foundation Awards Land Trust $500,000 for Nisqually Community Forest"
Department of Interior Awards Nisqually Land Trust $1.95 Million to Support Coastal Wetlands Conservation - The U.S. Department of the Interior is awarding the Nisqually Land Trust $1.95 million for two projects that will protect marine shoreline in southern Puget Sound, including intact habitat vital for the recovery of threatened orcas and Chinook salmon. Wetlands in coastal watersheds are diverse and complex ecosystems that are... Read more"Department of Interior Awards Nisqually Land Trust $1.95 Million to Support Coastal Wetlands Conservation"
Land Trust Triples Size of Nisqually Community Forest - The Land Trust and the Nisqually Community Forest board of directors recently tripled the size of the Community Forest with two major acquisitions. In December, acting as the purchasing agent for the Community Forest, the Land Trust acquired a full section (640 acres) of heavily forested timberlands along Busy Wild... Read more"Land Trust Triples Size of Nisqually Community Forest"