Baretich Conservation Easement: 30 Acres along the Wishkah River in Grays Harbor County.  Conserved 2005. Frank Baretich has donated this conservation easement at a slow-moving bend of the Wishkah River, just upstream from its mouth near Aberdeen. On the highest tides the river surges into wet meadows and old spruce forests, creating a dynamic landscape. This easement represents the Land Trust’s first project in Grays Harbor County, and an unparalleled opportunity to protect a surge plain – a unique, tidally influenced habitat. Overview of property: 30 acres along the Wishkah River, Grays Harbor County 1/2 mile of tidally influenced shoreline Habitat for many wildlife species, including black bears, river otters, mink, coyotes, deer, cougars, beavers, salmon, raptors, wintering ducks and resident migratory songbirds Mature spruce forest and wet meadows CLT Strategic Conservation Goals met by this project: “Protect riparian areas and wetlands with biological connections to marine and estuarine habitat."

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and  Merrimack Rivers

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