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Northwest Success Stories
Up one levelIsland Community Keeps Watmough Wild
Once again, San Juan Preservation Trust members and the island community came together to protect a dramatically beautiful, ecologically sensitive and much loved property. This time it was Watmough Bight on Lopez Island in Washington state.
An Ancient Grove of Trees Stands Tall
At a spot between the Rattlesnake Mountains and the Big Blackfoot river in Montana, there stands a grove of trees centuries older than the United States itself. the oldest ones - some more than 400 years old - are yellow-bark ponderosa pines, which are very tall and very straight, with trunks measuring as many as four-feet in diameter.
Big victory, small package
“Sometimes our success comes not in thousands of acres, but in thousands of hearts that are touched.” The conservation of the last 1.8 acres of Burke Park represented a big victory for the community despite its small size.
