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Baretich Conservation Easement:
30 Acres along the Wishkah River in Grays
Harbor County.
Protected with Conservation Easement in 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:
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30
acres along the Wishkah River, Grays Harbor County
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1/2
mile of tidally influenced shoreline
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Habitat
for many wildlife species, including black
bears,
river otters, mink, coyotes, deer, cougars, beavers,
salmon, raptors, wintering ducks and resident
migratory songbirds
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Mature
spruce forest and wet meadows
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CLT
Strategic Conservation Goals met by this project:
“Protect
riparian areas and wetlands with biological
connections to marine and estuarine habitat."
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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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All rights reserved.
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