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• September 27, 2023

  Western Rivers Conservancy and the Colville Tribes Repatriate Ancestral Lands and Deliver Life-Giving Water for Okanogan River Steelhead

  Western Rivers Conservancy and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation permanently conserved the 2,524-acre Antoine Valley Ranch, returning ancestral lands to the Colville Tribes and delivering desperately needed water to Antoine Creek and its imperiled run of Okanogan River steelhead.
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• September 13, 2023

  New hope for the Big Hole’s imperiled Arctic grayling comes at a critical moment

  Western Rivers Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service have permanently conserved the 200-acre Eagle Rock Ranch, returning a game-changing amount of clean, cold water to the Wise River and protecting vital habitat for fish and wildlife.
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• September 12, 2023

  Spring creeks, habitat and ancestral lands permanently conserved in the South Fork Kern River Valley

  A 2,285-acre oasis in the Southern Sierra, complete with spring-fed creeks, native trout and a natural warm spring, was permanently protected when Western Rivers Conservancy transferred ownership of the former Fay Creek Ranch to the Tübatulabal Tribe and the Kern River Valley Heritage Foundation.
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• March 08, 2023

  Prized stretch of the Okanogan River conserved and ancestral lands returned to Colville Tribes

  Last week, Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) permanently protected two miles of the Okanogan River and a key piece of one of the state’s most important wildlife corridors by conserving McLoughlin Falls Ranch.
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• January 20, 2023

  Vulnerable Gunnison River parcel now protected within the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area

  In the waning days of 2022, Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) together added a critical Gunnison River property to the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (NCA).
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• January 03, 2023

  Conservation partnership saves salmon waters, redwoods and woodlands in wine country

  This week, Western Rivers Conservancy and the California Rangeland Trust successfully protected a critical stretch of the Wheatfield Fork Gualala River and a series of cold-water salmon and steelhead streams in Sonoma County, at the heart of wine country.
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• October 19, 2022

  For Oregon State Parks’ 100th Anniversary, Western Rivers Conservancy gifts a new park feature on the John Day River

  In celebration of Oregon State Parks’ 100th anniversary, Western Rivers Conservancy created a new overlook installation above the John Day River at Cottonwood Canyon State Park.
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• July 26, 2022

  Prized ranch on the Yakima River will soon be public

  This week, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it plans to acquire Yakima Canyon Ranch from Western Rivers Conservancy using recreation access funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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• April 14, 2022

  Washington’s newest Community forest established at Nason Ridge

  Washington’s newest community forest was brought to life on Thursday, April 14 when Western Rivers Conservancy transferred the 3,714-acre Nason Ridge property on Lake Wenatchee to Chelan County.
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