Munro (Triple Creek Farm) Conservation Easement:
 Conserved in 2006.

Purchased from Ralph and Karen Munroe this January, Triple Creek Farm is the cornerstone of CLT’s lower Eld Inlet habitat protection plan that encompasses approximately 450 acres and 3.5 miles of marine shoreline. Triple Creek Farm can be admired from the William Cannon Footpath across the mud flats, which the Munros played a major role in creating.

The Farm regularly hosts elementary education programs as well as numerous community organizations, including the Audubon Society and the Boy Scouts of America. It also serves as a valuable archaeological site for research teams from the Squaxin Island Tribe and South Puget Sound Community College.

Featuring:

· Over 203 acres on the lower Eld Inlet’s Mud Bay, featuring more than three and a half miles of marine shoreline;

· Home to an archaeological site of national historic significance, including traditional fishing grounds and artifacts of a 1,000 year-old Squaxin village;

· Hosts some of South Sound’s most productive and diverse habitats for five species of anadromous fish;

· Site features wetlands, salt marshes, mud flats, forested uplands, and three streams, and is identified in 20 different

conservation and species recovery plans as critical habitat;

· CLT Strategic Conservation Goals met by this project:

h Protect marine shorelines, estuaries and tidelands,
h Protect peninsular riparian areas.