FORTERRA
Forterra is dedicated to land conservation, protecting wildlands to urban spaces throughout the Pacific Northwest. Since 1989, the group has secured more than 275,000 acres in over 450 separate land transactions. Their work serves in a variety of ways:
- Conserve farmland
- Protect a broad range of ecosystems
- Create jobs
- Revitalize small towns
- Reduce wildfires
- Cut greenhouse emissions
- Expand access to fresh, locally grown food
- Lower construction costs
- Develop sustainable urban areas
Blue Fern Homes’ support is helping Forterra secure 4 key pieces of land this year:
- Little Skookum Inlet, 816 acres of river habitat, wetland, and forest, plus 2 miles of marine shoreline;
- Maloney Creek and Forest, more than 50 acres of forest that is home to such endangered species as the marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl;
- Windy Ridge, 350 acres that have never been logged, with 300-year-old silver fir, Douglas fir, and hemlock towering over the forest; and
- Van Wyk Ranch, spanning almost 4,500 acres of rolling hills, flatlands, steep slopes, and shrub-steppe, which is threatened by climate and wildfires that put both the land and the wildlife at risk.