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The following conservation properties are available for sale through the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust Conservation Buyer Program. All conservation buyer properties must be protected with a conservation easement satisfactory to the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust that protects the property's conservation values and restricts its development potential. A conservation easement will be placed on the property at or prior to the time or sale.
For more information please contact Bob Bugert, Executive Director, at (509) 667-9708 or bob@cdlandtrust.org.
Horselake Project
5/15/2008 Update - We have listed the
To maximize the conservation potential of this area, we have realigned the boundaries and combined the two ranches into one property totalling 1207 acres. The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust will retain ownership of 173 acres on the eastern edge of the property for a trailhead and a new trail that will connect Horse Lake Road to the existing Wenatchee Foothills trails. Click here for project background.
Price: $950,000.
Size: 1207 acres
(originally 720 acres)
If you know someone who may be interested in purchasing one of these properties, please have them contact Russ Andrews at Windermere Real Estate, (509) 662-7184.
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Property Description
Lying on the shoulder of Horselake Mountain, this historic ranch property offers stunning views of the Wenatchee and Columbia River valleys and the surrounding mountains, multiple springs, and abundant wildlife. The property offers a very secluded building site, but is less than 4 miles from the Wenatchee city limits, and is accessed by a County Road which is maintained year-round.
Conservation Objectives
This property has high conservation value because of the quality and diversity of the habitat, the amount and quality of riparian areas, and its location adjacent to other undeveloped areas. It is predominantly mountain-foothills shrub-steppe, located on the northeast side of
Important habitat values include: high-quality crucial winter range for the migratory Chelan mule deer herd; high quality bird habitat with exceptional songbird densities; high-quality upland bird habitat for California quail, chukar, blue and ruffed grouse; raptor foraging habitat, particularly for golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, American kestrels and northern harriers; high-quality year-round elk habitat; connectivity to crucial mule deer winter range to the east owned by the Bureau of Land Management; connectivity to crucial mule deer winter range to the south owned by Chelan County PUD as mule deer mitigation for Rock Island Dam; and connectivity for bighorn sheep dispersal between the Quilomene and Swakane herds.
Project Background - Central Washington conservation groups joined forces to protect wildlife habitat on two large ranches in the Wenatchee foothills. In 2006 the Wenatchee Sportsmen’s Association and the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust announced an ambitious plan to acquire the adjoining 837-acre Burts Ranch and the 720-acre Horse Lake Ranch in the foothills west of
While both properties have significant habitat value on their own, the conservation value of both is significantly greater than the value of each property separately. Protection of both ownerships, along with adjacent protected properties, creates contiguous protected ownership of more than 3000 acres (970 acres Chelan County PUD, 837 acres Burts Ranch, 720 acres Horse Lake Ranch, 320 acres Bureau of Land Management, 160 acres Washington State Department of Natural Resources, 32 acres Chelan-Douglas Land Trust).
For more information please contact Bob Bugert, Executive Director, at (509) 667-9708 or bob@cdlandtrust.org.
Horselake Ranch