PCC Sound Consumer
PCC Farmland Fund report
by Jody Aliesan, Director Farmland Fund
- USFWS grants $1 million to partnership for Meadowbrook project
- Watch this space (Bennington Place)
- Donor Roster for December 1 — 31, 2003
USFWS grants $1 million to partnership for Meadowbrook project
 A patchwork quilt of parcels represents the landowners, tribe, organizations, government agencies and land trusts (including the Farmland Fund) working together to preserve Meadowbrook estuary farmland and habitat. |
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The Farmland Fund is one of nine partners in a Dungeness River estuary project boosted by a grant of just under $1 million ($987,500) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agency is funding 20 projects in eight states. Six projects — totaling $5.1 million — are in Washington.
Our project entails purchase and conservation of coastal farming/wetland habitat properties in the lower 1.5 miles of the Dungeness River and Meadowbrook Creek systems. The source of Meadowbrook Creek is on our Delta Farm. (See "The Farmland Fund partners to protect the Meadowbrook Farmland" and "Organic farming saves this butterfly" Sound Consumer, September 2003.)
"This is a very positive sign of the intensive cooperation that exists in our region," said U.S. Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Belfair, of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. Our partners are Clallam County, Ducks Unlimited, Dungeness River Center, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, National Wildlife Refuge Coordinated Volunteer Program, North Olympic Land Trust, Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Watch this space
The Farmland Fund has saved another farm. No longer in danger of becoming view lot ranchettes, the Bennington Place, 174 acres of deep silt soil in the Walla Walla Valley, is now leased to the Huesby family, doing business as Thundering Hooves: www.thundering hooves.net. They raise pasture-ranged and pasture-finished livestock and poultry in an open, natural and low-stress environment with no growth hormones or antibiotics. The cattle eat only pasture grass and alfalfa. The land and operations are in transition to organic certification. Look for a cover story in the March Sound Consumer.
Donor Roster (December 1-31, 2003) |
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Anonymous: 24 |
Linda Shultz Mary G. Simon Stephani Siudmak Elizabeth Sloss Elin & David Smith Ingrid Sparrow Patricia Stimac & Kent Buttars Erik Swanson Judy Lyn Sweetland Loretta H. Taylor Terri Ann Taylor Mark Thomas & Beverly Mand Barbara F. Tice Katherine Tighe Barbara Tubb Mark & Nancy Tucker Karen Wasserman Cynthia D. Wold Jane Yadav In honor PCC Staff Foundations Businesses and Organizations |
The PCC Farmland Fund works to secure and preserve threatened farmland in Washington State and move it into organic production. For more information, see the PCC Farmland Fund web page.