Our Impact
We hold over 4,000 acres for conservation in the Chehalis River Basin. Check out the map below! Red areas represent lands held by the Land Trust. As you can see, we’ve been focusing on landscape scale preservation in the Grays Harbor Area.
A small selection of our properties.
Barnett
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
160 Ac
Long, narrow parcel with Deep Creek and adjacent wetlands traversing east to west through the center of the property. Secondary growth with mature trees near the creek at the lower points of the property near the center. Slopes are mixed young forest. A majority of the property slopes upwards away from deep creek. The northern end of the property is wetland with a small pond on the northeast end of the property.
Elliot Slough
These 175 acres include high-quality coastal surge plain lands and six miles of sloughs at the head of Grays Harbor, in Grays Harbor County. The site will be known as the Elliot Slough parcel, and is part of a larger effort to conserve the Chehalis River Surge Plain. It is located near a State Natural Area Preserve and an Audubon Society preserve.
These tidal lands are home to salmon, deer, and a great variety of birds. With spruce, willow, crabapple, cattails and many more wetland plants, this western end of the Chehalis River surge-plain possesses huge ecological value. This habitat type is often called the “nursery of the sea” because a huge number of valuable marine species begin their lives in quiet, shallow estuaries.
Moclips
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
112 Ac
This property has extensive river frontage along both shorelines of the Moclips River. About 10 % of the land lies north of the river, 90% on the south side. It is primarily in young, scrubby mixed forest with an area of wetlands in the southeast quadrant. Since they lie mainly along the main access road, they were probably created or at least enhanced by road construction. One old road in the southeast corner has blocked a small spring-fed stream, resulting in a deep gully down the road sending sediment into the wetland below.
Lennox/Lechter
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
122 Ac
Lennox-Ocean Beach Rd & Loertscher-Ocean Beach Rd: These two properties, totaling 122 acres, lie along the west bank of the Humptulips River not far to the south of where the Ocean Beach Highway crosses the Humptulips River. They are composed of forests of mixed ages plus extensive wetlands and at least four ponds, two of them large, in association with those wetlands.