Conservation Stories

01.08.15

Long Beach Peninsula Project Awarded Coastal Wetland Grant

Columbia Land Trust scored a major victory this week when its Long Beach Peninsula Wetlands Conservation Project was awarded a $914,375 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Columbia Land Trust will acquire and protect 400 acres of declining coastal wetlands, riparian areas and conifer forest on the Long Beach Peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and Willapa Bay,…

12.23.14

Forestlands for All

Columbia Land Trust teamed up with a timber company and public leaders to avert a development crisis south of Mount St. Helens.

12.22.14

An Estuarine Eden

Crooked Creek Property Expands Grays Bay Conservation Efforts

07.16.14

[In the Media] A Story About Our Klickitat Canyon Project in The Columbian

We’re working to keep development permanently off of 9,000 acres of land along the Klickitat River, one of Washington’s great rivers. Read the whole story in the Columbian.

06.12.14

[In the Media] The Land Trust Conserves 62 Acres on the Long Beach Peninsula

Read Shari Piel’s story about our latest acquisition in the Longview Daily News. The acquisition will conserve a part of Hines Marsh, home to trumpeter swans and one of the largest “interdunal wetlands” in the Pacific Northwest.

05.20.14

Fields of Joy

Vernal pools, balsam root, and uninterrupted views made Four Sisters worth saving.

05.20.14

Dome Deal

South of Mount St. Helens, a landscape logged for decades will become a great Northwest forest of the future.

05.20.14

A Powerful Future

Our charge on the Hood River? Make a classic Northwest river even better for wildlife and people.

05.20.14

Stand Tall

Along the Elochoman River, we're transforming a tree farm into what it once was: a wild forest teeming with life.

05.13.14

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Long Beach Peninsula Project Awarded Coastal Wetland Grant

Forestlands for All

Columbia Land Trust teamed up with a timber company and public leaders to avert a development crisis south of Mount St. Helens.

An Estuarine Eden

Crooked Creek Property Expands Grays Bay Conservation Efforts

[In the Media] A Story About Our Klickitat Canyon Project in The Columbian

[In the Media] The Land Trust Conserves 62 Acres on the Long Beach Peninsula

Fields of Joy

Vernal pools, balsam root, and uninterrupted views made Four Sisters worth saving.

Dome Deal

South of Mount St. Helens, a landscape logged for decades will become a great Northwest forest of the future.

A Powerful Future

Our charge on the Hood River? Make a classic Northwest river even better for wildlife and people.

Stand Tall

Along the Elochoman River, we're transforming a tree farm into what it once was: a wild forest teeming with life.

Kerry On

Before a levee was built, Kerry Island was intimately connected with the tides. Soon it will be again.