A Lot Has Changed Since You Last Saw Us
Dear Janet, You supported the Watershed Conservancy in 2023 — a $100 gift in October, if our records are right. I'm writing because quite a bit has happened since then, and I wanted you to hear about it from us before you hear about it anywhere else.
In February we closed on the Sumas River easement. That's 840 acres of riparian habitat, permanently protected, that would otherwise have gone to a gravel operation. Your 2023 gift went into the pre-acquisition legal work that made that deal possible. This year we're working on something bigger. A 2,200-acre conservation purchase on the Nooksack that would link three existing protected parcels into a continuous salmon-bearing corridor. If we pull it off, it will be the largest private conservation transaction in the state this decade. We're not writing today to ask you to fund that purchase. We're writing to invite you back into the conversation — to get the monthly updates, come to the fall walk-out, and be the first to know when we launch the public phase of the campaign this winter.
Would you come back with a $25 gift to get this year's updates started?