Typically, conservation easements place some restrictions on future subdivision and development of a property. All restrictions in a particular easement are agreed upon in advance by the landowner and the land trust. All inquiries will be confidential. As spring approaches, the Methow Valley Recycling Project is ramping up efforts to generate funding for the Methow Valley Recycling Center. The Okanogan Electric Co-op is a major sponsor.
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Stewardship Director Katharine Bill has compiled a landowner information packet describing ways that individual landowners can protect songbirds. She has also collected a list of 240 landowners with prime songbird habitat. The next step in the project will be to visit parcels where landowners are interested in protecting songbird habitat, and listen for several focal species. Katharine is gearing up to start these surveys in mid-May. Every landowner that Katharine visits will receive a short description of the habitat and a list of the birds that she observes.