Staff at the Whidbey Camano Land Trust in Washington state knew they had to act quickly when a 226-acre (91-hectare) beachfront property south of Coupeville came on the market last December. FOX13
state knew they had to act quickly when a 226-acre beachfront property south of Coupeville came on the market last December.
In late April, the land trust bought the property for $9.1 million, the most expensive purchase in the nonprofit’s nearly four-decade history. Conservation director Ryan Elting said an "emergency acquisition" was needed to protect the site’s 175 acres of forest and 3,500 feet of nearly pristine shoreline.Purchase of the property was accomplished with two bridge loans, one from a private donor and the other from regional lender Craft3.
Elting said the vision is for Keystone Preserve to become "a demonstration site for ecological restoration, habitat enhancement and regenerative farming, and how all of those can work together." Further down the beach, Elting stopped at the "feeder bluffs," special bluffs in Puget Sound that constantly erode. He said the bluffs provide "a slow and steady supply of nutrients" for plants and animals. When people build structures like bulkhead walls to stop erosion, they block the flow of sediments." looks for natural stretches of shorelines so they don’t get developed and we don’t have to restore them," he said.
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