Category Overview
Forestland Preservation grants help improve opportunities for forest management activity and improve the long-term growth and harvest of timber. These projects help protect many different kinds of forests, including, but not limited to, large-scale industrial forests, small private landowner forests, community forests, and tribally - or publicly-owned and managed forests.
Project Highlights
The project involved acquisition of two separate properties associated with an expansion of the Mt. Adams Community Forest at our Mill Pond-Outlet Creek Tract. The first property – Outlet Creek – due to transaction timelines had to be purchased from Broughton Lumber Company initially in May of 2019 with a loan from The Conservation Fund, and paid off with a $100,000 NAWCA grant and funds through RCO. This property included just over 152 acres of stream, wetland, riparian and upland forest and wet meadows. Funding supported fee acquisition and closing costs, survey, Phase 1 ESA, appraisal and review appraisal. A second 40+ acre property referred to as Outlet Creek 40 or Mill Pond North was then purchased from Hancock Natural Resource Group to secure recreational access to the first property and further protect an adjacent stretch of wetland and upland forest. That transaction closed in late summer of 2021 and funding from RCO supported fee acquisition and closing costs, legal support, survey, appraisal and review appraisal.