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“SNW’s continuing work on national policy issues, particularly through the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition, is beginning to have measurable impacts in the community of Hayfork. We're beginning to achieve important community wildfire protection and forest restoration objectives while also providing work for local contractors and wood for value-added manufacturing."
Nick Goulette
Watershed Research & Training Center
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Stories of Healthy Ecosystems
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Ecohaus
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Matt Freeman-Gleason acted on his commitment to sustainability and started Environmental Home Center, now Ecohaus, an eco-friendly building materials supplier.
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Cart'M Recycling
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Frustrated by the lack of recycling resources in Manzanita, Oregon, Lane deMoll and Kathleen Ryan started a citizen-run dump, recycling center and community center.
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Dungeness River Watershed Restoration
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Tribespeople, irrigators, property owners, conservationists, and public agencies came together to restore threatened salmon populations.
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Thundering Hooves
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Formerly a struggling conventional wheat farmer, Joel Huesby uses innovative techniques on his successful organic beef, chicken and turkey ranch.
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Tenmile Creek Watershed Restoration Project
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Dorie Belisle and her husband John worked with neighboring farms to protect the salmon and the agriculture on the Tenmile Creek Watershed.
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JEA Farms, Ltd.
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John Aeschliman promotes rich, moist soil in dry country using direct-seed or no-till farming to grow wheat.
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Leonetti Cellar
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Leonetti Cellar winemaker Gary Figgins and his son Chris, the winery's lead viticulturalist, cultivate soil health to create quality wines.
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Limberlost Tree Farm
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Herb and Grace Payne reclaim family land and replant cedars in the hope of recreating the old growth stands that were here a century ago.
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Moccasin Lake Ranch
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Preservation, conservation and production all blend together on Moccasin Lake Ranch which covers over 2200 acres in north central Washington.
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Read, Deanna and Jeremy Smith Family Farms
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Read Smith protects his topsoil with no-till farming on his ranch in eastern Washington’s Palouse region.
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Two Rivers Farm
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Nancy Denson and Nick Stemm celebrate the coexistence of the cultivated and the wild on their farm by supporting a balance between harvest and natural setting.
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Colvin Family Ranch
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Fred Colvin balances conservation and restoration with grass fed cattle ranching on his 640 acre property in western Washington.
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Double J Ranch
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Peter Goldmark draws on his scientific and farming background to run his grass finished yearling and wheat breeding ranch in Washington's Okanogan Valley.
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Hedlin Family Farm
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Dave Hedlin encourages long-range vision on his Skagit Valley farm and has joined with other local growers to preserve farmland, open spaces and wildlife habitat.
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Nash Huber & Delta Farm
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Partnering with PCC Natural Foods to create the Farmland Fund, farmer Nash Huber saved the Dungeness River Valley's Delta Farm from development.
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S & S Homestead Farm
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Henning Sehmsdorf and his family stay healthy by practicing biodynamic farming,
and are moving towards self-sufficiency on Lopez Island, WA.
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Forest Concepts, LLC
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Forest Concepts promotes forest health and the local economy by using the by-products of forest restoration in constructing products that benefit watersheds.
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Gies Farm
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Dale Gies experimented with mustard plants and green manure to improve his soil quality and unexpectedly became a leader in the field of biofumigation.
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Peshastin Creek Growers Association
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Dr. John Dunley helps the Peshastin Creek Growers Association develop a soft pesticide program for their orchards and move away from conventional farming.
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Stillaguamish Old Channel Restoration
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Chuck Hazleton and the Snohomish County, WA community on the Stillaguamish River installed a water control structure to repair habitat for endangered salmon.
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