Columbia Land Trust

Land Trust expands Klickitat River conservation area

By Cherie Kearney

Songbirds rely on the rich habitat of oak woodlands along their long migration routes from Oregon and Washington to Latin America. Thanks to the continued cooperation and generosity of a local landowner, a federal Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grant, and a private Wildlife Forever Fund grant, Columbia Land Trust has added approximately 550 acres to its oak woodland conservation area along the lower Klickitat River in Washington. The Land Trust was one of 30 partners in the United States and two countries in Latin America to receive grant funding for threatened oak habitats and their associated priority bird species.

Locally, Columbia Land Trust worked with landowner Bill Giersch to conserve Klickitat River shoreline and oak woodland from river mile 4 to river mile 10 as part of this international cooperative. The purchase is subject to a life estate to Bill for cattle grazing. Bill has worked with Columbia Land Trust over the last five years to conserve other ranchlands along the Klickitat. He sold 580 acres on Dillacort Creek and the Klickitat River in 2001, and another 300 acres at Logging Camp Creek along the Klickitat River to the Land Trust in 2003. In both of those cases, the Land Trust used Washington State Salmon Funds and Bill gave a generous donation of land.

The conserved land is along the steep slopes and riparian shoreline of the river. The slopes include rocky outcrops, mature oak and pine woodland, native grassland and wildflower habitat that support abundant wildlife including state threatened western gray squirrel, cougar, black-tailed deer, and state listed salmon and steelhead. The site is a key migratory corridor for birds of prey using air currents along the steep-walled canyons, moving from the Klickitat watershed towards the Columbia River Gorge. The oak woodlands are an important migratory corridor for early migrant songbirds dispersing northward after moving inland up the Columbia River Gorge from the coast. The low elevation river riparian habitat is important winter range for deer, elk and other fauna.

The newly acquired acreage brings Columbia Land Trust conservation holdings on the federally designated Wild and Scenic Klickitat River to approximately 1,400 acres of high priority oak and pine woodland. Restoration work in the coming years will maximize the potential of these habitats for the birds and wildlife that rely on these lands. In cooperation with the Oregon White Oak Working Group, the Land Trust will share information about our restoration efforts to guide future oak habitat restoration, making this project important to conservation efforts around the region.

Growing up

Glenn Lamb’s Muse

Out walking yesterday afternoon I saw a toddler struggling to pull himself up onto a stump. Mom was there to help him. Then the two of them started counting the growth rings on the stump. This little guy had only been alive for the last couple of rings on this 150-year old tree.

This year, Columbia Land Trust turns fifteen years old. We too are just toddlers in this world.

The Native Americans lived here for tens of thousands of years before us. In our Pacific Northwest rain forest you can still find cedar trees that are more than 1,000 years old. Just 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark completed their voyage across the mountains. A scant 30 years ago, Oregon passed its well-known land use planning law. Twenty-five years ago, Mt. St. Helens blew away its upper 1,200 feet. All of this happened before there was any Columbia Land Trust.

Since the spring day in 1990 when Columbia Land Trust was created, we have seen more than 500,000 people added to our region, homes and development built along many familiar natural places, the listing of dozens of salmon species as endangered, Oregon citizens scaling back their land use laws, and now Mt. St. Helens is rumbling again. In that time as well, 42 landowners worked with Columbia Land Trust to bring more than 6,500 acres of our great lands in to conservation.

Columbia Land Trust pledges to conserve these great lands forever. Such a long time. We can’t even begin to predict what the next fifteen years will bring. The only thing we can be certain of is that the future holds significant change.

That’s why this year we are conducting an in-depth conservation and organizational analysis to determine how we can best conserve the most important lands, these lands that we love. In this analysis we will do our best to look ahead, well beyond our lifetimes, to determine how we can do the most good. By year-end, we will have a new blueprint for growing the organization and conserving land. Look for more details in future editions of this newsletter.

Planning for the future also means that we have established a permanent endowment to ensure that we will be able to care for these lands responsibly regardless of whatever else changes in this world. Last year, we received our first three gifts to this endowment, a wonderful step toward these forever commitments.

Land use laws come and go, species slide toward extinction and, in some rare cases, are nurtured back from the brink, the economy surges and recedes, geology plays out its massive forces. Throughout it all, Columbia Land Trust stays singularly focused on helping private landowners conserve their lands, and defending these conservation values forever.

Someday, a toddler will be counting the hundreds of rings on an old tree, a tree blown down in a wind storm, perhaps a tree planted this year by a cub scout on a Land Trust property. Let us do everything we can to conserve our great places for our great, great grandchildren to be inspired by nature.

Volunteers improving oak habitat in Rowena, Oregon

By Lindsay Cornelius

“One… two…!” The anticipation in the forester’s voice rang through the oak woodland and could be felt in the tension the volunteers exerted on the rope. The butt of a forty-foot Oregon white oak tree was suspended twenty feet off the ground, a rope attached to its trunk.

Strange things can happen on the count of three. On Saturday, February 26th, architects and family members from Miller Hull Partnership, a Seattle-based architectural firm, joined staff and volunteers from Columbia Land Trust in one such countdown on conservation lands in Rowena, Oregon. The objective: to remove a tree whose branches had become tangled in the crown of a neighboring tree when a sawyer felled it.

“Three!” The volunteers released their hold on the rope and the trunk of the tree swung in a fifty-foot arc past the ensnaring tree and up the other direction. It was a giant pendulum display of the strength and weight of oak wood, which grows slowly in dense growth rings that contribute to oak’s burning properties and make the wood incredibly strong and heavy to move. The forty-foot tree was held up by two small limbs no larger than a human bicep.

The volunteers were helping with a Land Trust oak thinning project ongoing at Rowena Wilds for the last year. The project is designed to improve wildlife habitat by mimicking the effects of frequent, low-intensity fires that have been absent from the woodlands since the time of European settlement. Thinner trees will grow larger in diameter, providing better habitat for wildlife and increased acorn production. Removal of over-stocked forest fuels also reduces the risk of catastrophic fire.

Teams of volunteers hauled and piled six-foot sections of oak trunks that weighed enough to humble machinery, and piled the limbs for later burning. In just one day, over twenty volunteers from Miller Hull accomplished more than half of the thinning work, bringing Columbia Land Trust a few trees away from completing the restoration phase of the project.

Thank you to Miller Hull Partnership and the other CLT volunteers who have labored on those steep, rocky slopes for their spirited dedication to Columbia Land Trust restoration efforts!

If you, your family and friends, community group or your place of employment would like to organize a group volunteer event with Columbia Land Trust, please contact Lindsay Cornelius at (360) 696-0131 or by email at lindsayc@columbialandtrust.org.

Forest Stewardship: It’s for the Birds
(and other wildlife too)

By Ian Sinks

According to the American Bird Conservancy, temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest support the highest abundance of birds of any coniferous forest system in North America. These forests are composed of diverse stands ranging from low elevation coastal Sitka spruce to higher elevation western hemlocks that blanket the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains. While the higher elevation forests have been significantly protected in National forests and parks, a significant portion of the lower elevation spruce communities have been lost to agriculture and development. According to Breeding Bird Survey data, many bird species within this region are experiencing population declines or instability, and many have unknown reactions to alterations of their habitat. In coniferous forests of western Oregon and Washington, 27 species have significant recent and/or long-term declining trends, while only 12 species have significantly increasing trends.

In 2003 Columbia Land Trust acquired the 100- acre Breaker Lake property located in the southern interior of the Long Beach Peninsula in Southwest Washington. The property had been identified as important land for conservation despite having been clear cut within the past 15 years. While past land use had the obvious effect of removing the large trees that undoubtedly supported a diverse array of birds and other species of wildlife, the property was worthy of protection because its unique and diverse mix of inter-dunal wetlands, lakes, and remnant fragments of older conifer-forested uplands were threatened by subdivision for more than 40 residential homesites and a recreational vehicle park. Bird experts also suspected that despite the property’s small size, it would be a significant site for birds due to its diverse array of habitat features.

Our suspicions were proven accurate in December 2004 when the first year’s monitoring report was completed. Over 91 species were documented on the property during 2004, and of the 30 species with significant recent or long-term declining trends in their populations 21 have been documented on the property. With funding from the Neotropical Migratory Bird Program, the Land Trust was able to contract Mike Patterson of Celata Research to conduct point count surveys on the Breaker Lake property. A point count survey is a standardized methodology developed by ornithologists to document bird use and estimate populations of different species within habitat communities. Survey locations are set up throughout the site (ensuring that there is at least one point within each habitat community represented on the property) and are visited regularly throughout the year by a biologist capable of identifying birds by both sight and sound. The information collected tells us not only what bird species are using the Breaker Lake conservation property, but how many and what habitat types each species is using. Perhaps most importantly, by combining this information with other habitat data (vegetation communities, other wildlife use, etc), we will have the information critical to determining how the young forests should be managed to provide the greatest benefit for birds and other wildlife species.

Columbia Land Trust and Saltchuk Resources join to conserve important Columbia River habitat

By Mary Bellotti

Columbia Land Trust has signed a 50-year lease with Seattle-based Saltchuk Resources and its subsidiary Foss Maritime, to protect three Columbia River islands and adjacent floodplains that are important habitat for various species of salmon, migratory birds and other wildlife.

The lands, totaling approximately 700 acres in Washington and Oregon, stretch for about 100 miles along the Columbia from the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area to the mouth of the river at Astoria, Oregon. They include Ryan, Walker and Sandy islands. The Land Trust will pay a fee of $1 per year to Saltchuk for all rights to conserve and restore the islands and floodplains over the next 50 years. Saltchuk Resources, a family holding company based in Seattle, have conserved more than 2,700 acres of lands in the Northwest. Foss Maritime provides shipping, towing and other marine transportation services along the West Coast.

The long-term lease is a new arrangement for the Land Trust, which typically acquires property through purchases or donations, said Cherie Kearney, Land Trust conservation director. “The lease is a creative way to work with landowners to accomplish conservation. It is a perfect and unique fit for these lands. While we don’t need to own them, we want to keep the door open to develop wildlife management plans and restoration projects in the future,” she said.

“We want to find a way to actively care for land in the communities where we operate,” said Saltchuk chairman Michael Garvey. “Foss Maritime is committed to preserving riverbeds and other sensitive lands it owns, and the Land Trust brings us expertise in Columbia River Basin habitat restoration.”

Nate Dreon, Saltchuk’s real estate director negotiated terms of the lease for Saltchuk. “The Land Trust has a track record of successfully conserving difficult tidelands and river properties,” he said. “It’s why we sought them out to create this partnership.”

The islands and adjacent floodplains Saltchuk is leasing to the Land Trust contain sensitive habitat for a number of species, including Columbian white-tailed deer, salmon and waterfowl, said Kearney. “We’re very interested in preserving that type of high-quality habitat and, in some cases, restoring it,” she said. “Islands and Columbia River floodplain and estuaries are conservation priorities for Columbia Land Trust.”

Kearney credited Saltchuk leaders for their commitment to preserving fish and wildlife and river habitat. “It is inspiring to work with corporations like Saltchuk that are creative and open-minded about finding ways to conserve land,” she said.

Mary Bellotti is a Portland freelance writer and Land Trust volunteer

Crooked Creek conserved as part of Grays Bay initiative

Columbia Land Trust has acquired 75 acres of key salmon habitat near the mouth of the Grays River, Washington. This parcel joins more than 900 acres already in conservation in the area as part of our Grays Bay Initiative. The initiative supports key salmonid rearing habitat, improves water quality in the region, and provides habitat for a variety of wildlife.

The property was owned by Joe Sr. and Corliss Florek, along with their sons Joe Jr. and John. Sadly, Joe Sr. died during the conservation process, but the family continued to support the project. The family owns a logging business which operates primarily in Wahkiakum County, Washington. Sons Joe Jr. and John were key in bringing the property into conservation. As Joe Jr. said, “This is a good project and will be really good for fish. Some people don’t understand what your group is doing, but this project helps to explain it.”

The family contacted the Land Trust in June 2003. Crooked Creek comes in on the East side of Grays Bay, Wahkiakum County, Washington, just south of Rosburg. The property sits less than ¼ mile back from the mouth of the Bay. When Columbia Land Trust staff visited the land with family members, they were excited by what they saw. The property holds a functionally intact stand of remnant spruce swamp (which has seen a 96% decline in the area over the last 100 years), backwater habitat for fish, and forested habitat for wildlife. Most importantly, all of these elements were still pristine, untouched by dike systems so common in the region. “It’s rare to find property in this condition,” Stewardship Director, Ian Sinks remarked, “The land is a good example of a functionally intact habitat type that use to be wide spread in the Lower Columbia River.”

Crooked Creek provides crucial nursery and over-wintering habitat for hundreds of juvenile Chinook, sea run cutthroat, steelhead, and Coho salmon. Conservation of lands such as these are the first key step to salmon recovery for this watershed. Taken together, the 1,000 acres conserved by Columbia Land Trust in the area will help to improve the overall productivity of the Grays River system in a reasonably short time frame. If the Land Trust and its partners continue to build on opportunities such as Crooked Creek, salmon recovery in this watershed could become a reality. Water quality in the region will also be improved in the long term.

The property was acquired by the Land Trust in January 2005, supported by funding from the Lower Columbia River Fish Recovery Board and the Salmon Recovery Board. Unlike other properties in our Grays Bay Initiative, the land requires no restoration work. However, stewardship staff has already begun to monitor the land as part of the Grays Bay Initiative program. Monitoring, which on this property is best accessed via boat, will be ongoing and is designed to study water quality, fish and wildlife counts, and the overall health of the watershed.

The family enjoyed working with the Land Trust, and the results it has produced. Corliss says, “This was a very good thing, and we were thrilled by the way this worked.”

Recent grants for conservation and restoration

The Land Trust receives grants from public and private foundations to forward conservation, restoration, and stewardship work throughout the region. Here are some highlights of recent grants awarded in Fall 2004.

Youngs Bay – Walluski River Conservation/Restoration Project Phase II

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awarded $140,000 to Columbia Land Trust to initiate phase II of the Youngs Bay – Walluski River conservation effort. These funds allowed the Land Trust to purchase 55 acres of floodplain habitat immediately downstream of the 50 acre conservation area purchased last year. This property will be restored to its historic spruce swamp and intertidal marsh habitat type. Project benefits include the restoration of important salmonid rearing habitat, improved watershed function, and wildlife habitat for a great diversity of bird, amphibian and mammals. The Jackson Foundation has also made a grant towards our Walluski River work.

Germany Creek Conservation and Restoration

The original settlers in the area referred to it as German Creek for the ethnic origins of the people living there. Although the name has officially changed to Germany Creek, the area will always remind the Williamson family of their roots and the living they made off of the land logging, mining, fishing and raising cattle. With grants from the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board (through the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board), Bonneville Power Administration (through the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the lower mile of Germany Creek will be permanently protected and restored. This 155-acre project will include rehabilitation of a 250-foot chum spawning channel, reconnecting off channel rearing habitat, and management of the riparian forest to benefit wildlife. The Williamson Family is thrilled that their family land will be part of the conservation of the lower Columbia River and the recovery of salmon populations.

Lacamas watershed project development

Pacific Coast Joint Ventures granted $4,000 from the Discretionary Fund toward project development and landowner negotiations for the Lacamas watershed. The Lacamas watershed has some of the most ecologically significant wetlands, oak woodlands and remnant native prairie in Clark County, including the federally listed plant species Bradshaw’s lomatium.

The Columbia River Esturary Conservation Project

The Columbia River Estuary Conservation Project will conserve and restore the highest priority shallow water habitat, wetlands, riparian forests, floodplains and islands in the Columbia River Estuary. This effort will conserve 4,000 acres of critical habitat for salmon and endangered wildlife, and will protect water quality and ecosystem health. Once conservation and restoration is achieved, the Land Trust will steward the lands in perpetuity. Funding from private foundations for this project in 2004 included The Autzen Foundation, The Burning Foundation, and the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust.

Clark County Conservation Futures Program

Columbia Land Trust received two of the 12 recently approved Conservation Futures grants from Clark County. A grant of $840,000 will purchase land along the Lewis River and within the Mud Lake and lower Allen Creek Canyon near Ridgefield, Washington. The project emphasis is to acquire land for habitat conservation of shoreline, wetlands, floodplain, and forested hillsides, and also provides opportunities for light impact recreation such as canoeing, kayaking, hiking and fishing.

A second grant of $600,000 is focused on the upper east fork of the Lewis River. The grant will purchase forest land on the East Fork Lewis River west of Sunset Falls Campground at the edge of the Gifford Pinchot national Forest. The Land Trust will purchase this site to prevent inappropriate development and implement a sustainable forest management plan that establishes a working forest while conserving critical habitat, water quality and other key resource values. Proceeds from the forestry will be used for additional land conservation and stewardship activities.

Unrestricted Annual Fund Gifts

The following are membership gifts made to unrestricted annual giving for 2004. These gifts helped us to meet, and exceed, the 2004 Ray Hickey Columbia River Membership Challenge, made possible by Ray Hickey and an anonymous donor.

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Alicia MacArthur
Monteith Macoubrie
Joseph T. Maier
Steve March
Herbert Mason
Anne & John Masterson
Dr. & Mrs. E M McAninch
Pat & Mary McDonnell
Michael & Priscilla McGee
Norma & Pat McGraw
Kimberly McLellan
Steven R. McMaster & Kathy M. Brock
Dan & Kay G. McMurry
Julee McTaggart
Marilyn & Jon McWilliams
Douglas & Priscilla M. Meddaugh
Mark A. Melman
Bill & Nancy H. Meyer
Joan Miller
Jean Miller
Marcine Miller Miles & William M. Miles
Jay W. Minor
Mary Lou Munroe
Nancy Murray
J. I. Murray
R. K. Newhouse
E. M. Noyes, MD
Busse Nutley
Dan & Val Ogden
Ollie & Grace Oliver
Joan Ottinger
Walter & Carol Ottoson
Carleen Pagni
Fritz Paulus & Jennifer Viviano
Thomas Penchoen
Christina Peterson
Lona & Allen Pierce
Richard Poley
Sandra Polishuk
Royce Pollard
Ken & Gilda Powell
Pierre & Lisa E. Provost, MD
Claire Puchy
Steven Puddicombe
Glenice & Niel Rader
Rhonda Rasmussen & David Schultz
G. & Carol R. Reule
Lisa Richmond
Dino Rinaldi
Cheryl Ritenbaugh & Mikel Aickin
Barbara Robinson
Victoria Robinson & Todd Miller
Carolyn Rose & Michael Nettleton
John Rosenthal
Gayle Rothrock
Rick Rubin
Linda Rudawitz
Susan & Bill Ruecker
Karen L. Rumsey
Leif X. Running
Illahee Group, Inc.
Debra Salstrom & Richard Easterly
Edward Scherr & Michele Pozzi
Jean Schiffmann
Erich Schimps
Cecilia W. Schmitt
Michael Schoessler & Heather Dickinson
Penny & Peter Serrurier
Dick & Ruth N. Sheldon
Allison Shultz
Jason Silva
Richard & Lucinda Sisson
P. McCoy Smith
Carey Smith
Emil Smith
Charles & Lucille I. Smith
Scott W. Smith
Dr. John L. Soelling
Frank Southecorvo
Marcia Sparling & Michael Coppock
William & Barbara Spears
Lynne Stacy
Gretchen Starke
Joseph F. Starr
Ian & Nicole Stewart
Sandy Steinecker & Don True
Walt Stokes
Joel Swank
Larry & Julia J. Swatosh
Peter & Roseann Thomsen
Margaret Tilbury
John Tyler
Rachel Ulrich
Vancouver Audubon Society
Gerard Van Deene
Susan Van Leuven
Gilbert Vargas
Marjorie & Duane P. Varner
Vern Veysey
Dean Vincent
George & Marilou Waldmann
Coral M. Walker
Judy Walton
Emily M. Warrington
Frederick & Maureen G. Wearn
Jim & Helen D. Webb
Donna Wells
Jeffrey K. Winslow
Allene Wodaege
Rod Wojtanik
Gene Woodruff
Mike Worthy
James & Judith G. Youde
Jack & Lorna Zalaha

Caretakers ($100-249)

James & Jane Adams - In honor of Glenn Lamb & Sue Knight's wedding
Anonymous (12)
Susan Arney
Peter Bahls
Don & Mary Benton
Daniel R. Benua
Ken S. Berg
Taunja Berquam
Ruth Bishop
Allison & Chris Bjork
Allan & L. Blair
William T. Blomquist
Richard S. Bready & Karin C. Rosenberg
Gilbert D. Brentley
Dr. & Mrs. Emil Brooking - In honor of Glenn Lamb & Sue Knight's wedding
Frances H. Burham
James Caire
Don & Sue Cannard
Paul & Susan Cannard
Arthur & Diana Carroll
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Carter
Brad Chalfant
Victor & Phyllis Clausen
Robert Cline
Ray & Gail Collins
William Conner & Sonja Conner
Patricia R. Cook
Dave Cooke
Rick Cooper
Lindsay Cornelius
Lynn Cornelius
Sylvia Costich
Bruce M. Cross
Marc & Cynthia Dailey
Kathy Davis
Ray & Phyllis C. Davis
Ruth Deery
Becky Denham
Dr. & Mrs. H Lenox H. Dick
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Djergaian
Ecological Land Services, Inc.
Mike & Marianne Eddington
R.D. & Gwen Edwards
Todd & Jessy Engblom-Stryker
William & Marilyn Feddeler
Michael R. Federovitch
John & Lois Fenker
Robert & Marjorie Fizzell
Linda Floyd
Bruce & Nancy E. Fransen
John Fraser & Jo Alexander Fraser
Judith L. Freeman
Anne & Michael Freeman
Martin J. French
Peggy & Ben Fujita
Karen Garber & John Desmarais
Ben Glover
Scott & Cecelia Goodnight
Ella & Walter M. Gray
Robert Grimm, MD
Jeremy Grose
Kevin Grosz
Dave & Karen Gwinn
John W. Haines
Nancy & Charlie Hales
Lloyd Halverson
Lawrence Hansen
William Hardesty & Gail Hardesty
David & Patricia M. Harris
Sarah Hartung
Nancy Heine
Jane Hershberger
Janet Higby
Mary L. Hildreth
James P. Hogg & Vahn A. Corbett
James & Randi I. Holland
Gene & Linda Holmes
Paul Hoobyar & Lynn Youngbar
W.P. Hutchison & Barbara Hutchison
James & Carol Imhoff
Marilyn James
Dorothy Jensen
Mark Johnsen
Bill Kelley & Julie Anderson
Tom Kelly
Susan M. Kerosky - In honor of Glenn Lamb & Sue Knight's wedding
David Keudell
Thomas & Judith R. Kovaric
Lawrence & Lynn T. Krupa, MD
Leslie & Randy Labbe
George & Ruth Lamb
Kent & Lauri Landerholm
James Lanz & Kate Ketcham
Charlene R. Larsen
Tevis & Gwen Laspa
Kirsten Lee
Patrick Lee
Mary Legry
Jay Letto & Dawn Stover
Paul & Linda N. Lewis
Lee Lowenson
Bruce Lumper & Marilyn Wilks
Frederick M. Lunki
Clay A. Lyon
Charles & Carol Mackey
Shirley Mackintosh
Mimi Maduro & Michael Stevens
Mr. & Mrs. Len Magazine
Michael O. Malarkey
Kathleen & John Martin
R.P. Matthew
Judith & Alec Maule
Milo & Kay May
John McAnulty
Clark County Title Company
Jill McLean
Dennis Megrditchian & DeeAnne Finkel Megrditc
Ray Mitchell
Rick & Jilene Modlin
Luigi & Sinikka Mondini
Lee A. Moore
Paul Mortimer & Mary Starrs
Philip Mossholder
Anupam Narayan & Judith Sugg
Madeline Nelson & James Lafky
William Nelson
Richard & Nancy W. Oertel
Joan & Gerald Oliver
Timothy Onders
Peter Paquet
Suzanne Paulsen
Kara Paymar & Jeff Haddorff
Karla Pearlstein
Marc & Jacki Perry
Doug & Marjorie Peters
Steve Pickering & Shelley Pierman
Cleveland & Martha Pinnix
Joe Poracsky & MJ Reihl
John Potter
Malcolm Putnam
Edgar & Prudence Ragsdale
Ronald Reeder
Jo Reese & John L. Fagan
John & Phyllis Reynolds
Terasa J. Ridgway
Clarence L. Rivette
Monica B. Rodal
Richard S. Rodgers
Mary J. Rowan
Linda C. Runkle
Anne Saxby & Gil Sharp
Eion & Grace G. Scott
William Scott
William & Hazel Sefler
Craig Shambaugh
Martha Sharman & Warren Reid, Jr.
Walt & Debbie Shucka
Eric Simpson
John & Tuulikki Sinks
Jason & Jennifer Smesrud
Kent E. Snyder
Sha Spady
Charles Stariha
Ray & Cathy Steiger
Gordon & Darlene Story
Zachary & Vasiliki H. Stoumbos
Russ & Karen Swinehart
Philip & Judy Temko
Robert & Susan Tenold
Lance Thiede
Sharon A. Thorne
David & Pam Trask
Jozsef P. Urmos
Douglas & Ann Van Fleet
John Vandenberg & Jane Bicquette
David & Christine L. Vernier
Mark Vlahakis & Diana W. Tesh
Gary Wade & Marlis Rufener
Niels Waehneldt
Florence B. Wager
Barbara F. Walker
William R. Walters
Richard & Linda Ward
Jack Welch & Mariha Kuechmann
Barbara & Robert Wiest
Harriet Wilson
Ralph E. Wimmer & Tamara A. Burgett-Wimmer
Blair & Kathleen Wolfley
Karen Wood
James Wooster
Les L. Zimmer
Stanley Zyskowski

Sustainer ($250-499)

F. Gordon Allen
William and Marlene A. Anderson
Anonymous (2)
J. Bruce and Elizabeth Bell
Karen M. Boman
Harry & Beverly Bresnahan
Ann Chiller
Lisa DeGrace
Lynn & David Dicesare
Lisa Dow
Phil Durkee
Nancy Ellifrit
Roy & Kathleen Elmer
Randall Ferguson
Gordon & Linda Franklin
Susan & Greg Gilbert
PGP Valuation, Inc.
Dave & Cheri Groth
Ellen G. Hocker
Dennis Hopwood
Stuart Johnson
Steve Kenworthy
Greg & Gayle Kimsey
Maureen & Kurt Knutson
Mark Lawwill
William Leahy & Sharen Leahy
Veronica MacDonald
Rhidian & Martha Morgan
Gyla A. Murdock
James & Karen Newell
Lynn Palensky
Alan & JoAn Paymar
Rick & Diane Rupp
John Savage
Lynelle & John Shaffer
George Simpson
Ian Sinks & Nancy Durben
Judie Stanton
Randy & Sheli Sweet
Allen & Marcia Tooke
Rick & Leslie Trout
Pat & Leslie Wheary
Jeff & Diane Wills

Protectors ($500-999) 

Glenn & Liz Akins
Kerry Barnett & Mia Barnett
Eric & Tammy Bjorkman
Mitchell Bower, Jr. & Marlia Jenkins
Robin Bradford
Wilson & Susan E. Cady
William Ehringer & J. Stephanie Jacobson-Ehringer
Russell Evarts
Jon C. Harvey
Dr. & Mrs. Paul Jacobsen
Tom & Marilyn Koenninger
The Lazar Foundation
Melanie Moon & Ethan Benatan
Susan M. Pollock
William & Nancy Rosenfeld
Larry & Jill Stryker

Benefactors ($1,000-2,499) 

Orlien & Margot Becker
Brot & Mary Bishop, Sr.
Brad & Sandra Bortner
Jeff Breckel
Elizabeth A. Cebula
Terry Cornelius
Margaret Cornelius
DeaMor Associates, Inc.
Kathy Dietrich & Michael Munroe
Bill & Linda Dygert
Hahn & Associates, Inc.
William S. Harper
Tom & Betsy Henning
Linda Hickey
Ralph & Adolph Jacobs Foundation
Gloria John
Cheryl Kearney & Steven Clark
Kerr Pacific Corp.
King Charitable Trust
Luke Lukoskie & Lois Schwennesen
Jim & Kay McClaskey
Steve & Linda McGeady
Jody Moore
Mason Nolan
Northwest Hospitality Group
Joseph & Susie Palena
Alan & Mary Parlee
Joe & Teresa Pauletto, Jr.
Edward Pavone & Charlene Hiss
Brad & Suzanne Paymar
Randy B. Printz
Kathleen Sayce & Frank Wolfe
Larry Shaw
Jay Sherrerd & Penny Hunting
Shorebank Enterprise Group Pacific
Jennifer Sims
Rick Thomas
Doris Troxel
Jennifer Vail
Jane Van Dyke & Bronson Potter
Tim Welch
David & Linda Williams
Rachel Witmer

$2,500-4,999

David DeAntonis
Maul, Foster & Alongi, Inc.
John Payne
Pat & Kendrick Simila
Marc Smiley & Amy Gredler
Kimball Storedahl

$5,000-9,999

Scott & Jody Campbell
West Coast Bank
Scot & Kristen B. Jarvis
Paul L. King
Ed & Dollie Lynch
Peter McCoy
Tom & Valerie Moeller
Roger & Claudia H. Salquist
Standard Insurance Company
Robert H. Thurston & Polly Friedlander

$10,000-49,999

Richard & Janet Geary
Glenn Lamb
Wiancko Charitable Foundation

$50,000+

Anonymous (1)
Ray Hickey