Category Overview
Farmland Preservation protects valuable farmland and habitat for recreationally important animals, like salmon, birds, deer, and elk. These projects allow families to continue farming the land they have worked on for generations, and provide Washingtonians with healthy local food and a diverse economy. WWRP is the only source of farmland preservation funding in the state budget.
Project Highlights
The North Olympic Land Trust used this grant to purchase a conservation easement on 54 acres located on the edge of the City of Sequim, making this the Land Trust’s 83rd conservation easement on the Olympic Peninsula. The Mid Valley Farm project protects important farmland and infrastructure that is integral to the operation of nearby farms including one of the two remaining dairies in Clallam County. The farm is comprised of 100% prime farmland soils and supports crop land that can be used for pasture or for growing crops such as alfalfa, corn, barley spinach and vegetable seed. The primary benefit of this project is preservation of working farmland. We also amended the conservation easement after all of the funding was received, to ensure the proper percentages of funding used were documented in the conservation easement. This project would have not been possible without critical support from our community and multiple funding partners which include: *RCO’s WWRP Farmland Preservation Program *Clallam County Conservation Futures Fund *Floodplains by Design from the Dept of Ecology *Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Landowners committed to conservation, such as Dana Davis and Robin Rowland, along with the generous funding we received from the community and our funders,made this important conservation easement project possible.