Cascade Land Conservancy continues to make great progress on acquisitions in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River Valley. Several years ago, we began an initiative to acquire and protect the last remaining private in-holdings in this region. These are privately owned parcels, surrounded by public lands. To date, we have preserved a total of 1,220 acres in the Middle Fork Basin. Of that total, 780 acres have been resold to the United States Forest Service (USFS), which will care for the land long term. Cascade Land Conservancy has concentrated its preservation efforts in two areas of the valley: the Granite Creek basin and the Hardscrabble Creek basin.

The latest acquisition of 120 acres is one of the last in-holdings in the upper valley and includes over one mile of riverfront.  The acquisition will help the USFS in its effort to keep vehicles out of sensitive areas in the upper Middle Fork valley.