More than 100 people attend public meeting in Cashmere to discuss possibility of developing a "Valley Trail" from Leavenworth to Wenatchee. Chelan-Douglas Land Trust takes a leading role in advancing the proposal.

The CDLT, the City of Wenatchee, the National Park Service’s Rivers and Trailsand Conservation Assistance (RTCA) program, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Wenatchee Trails Coalition and local citizens conduct a three-day Design Charette at Wenatchee Valley College. Participants explore ideas for trailheads to connect western foothills to the city and increase public awareness of the Wenatchee Foothills trails and the foothills’shrub steppe landscape.

The 40-acre Sam Hill Property, a popular climbing destination in the Icicle Canyon, is permanently protected by CDLT, The Trust for Public Land, the Washington Climbers Coalition and the local climbing community led by CDLT members Mark Shipman and Freeman Keller.

Thanks to the generosity of landowners Glenn and Ana Martin and a grant from the Icicle Fund, the CDLT acquires a 57-acre property along the White River to conserve wetland, riparian and floodplain habitat critical for sockeye and Chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout plus numerous species of migratory birds. Six months later, CDLT reports it has protected a total of 190 acres, including 2.5 miles of riverfront, in the White River flood plain.

CDLT, in partnership with NCW Association of Realtors, The Nature Conservancy, Institute for Rural Innovation and Stewardship, organized "Economy, Community, Environment: Building a Vision", a two-day conference exploring our region's quality of life. The conference packed the convention center for two days, and attendees explored how North Central Washington can continue to grow, while preserving natural, cultural and community resources.

Wenatchee Valley Trails Coalition begins work on a Trails Master Plan for the Wenatchee Foothills.

The first Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest is in May, with The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust among its founders. A Wenatchee Foothills brochure is produced and interpretive signs are posted at the Jacobson Preserve as the first educational efforts about responsible use of the Foothills. The first Public Lands Dialogue is conducted. This is an effort among the major public landowners (U.S.

CDLT partners with the U.S. Forest Service to restore and enhance wetlands and riparian habitat on the White River, the major feeder of Lake Wenatchee. CDLT helps organize an Agriculture and Environment Tour, bringing together over 45 individuals to focus on ways that the agricultural and environmental communities can work together. 50 volunteers build two miles of hiking and biking trails on the Jacobson Preserve, supported by a grant from the Community Foundation of North Central Washington.

With two grants from the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board totaling $1.6 million, CDLT purchases over 420 acres of prime fish and wildlife habitat along the Stillwaters stretch of the Entiat River.

The CDLT spearheads “Save the Sage” fundraising effort to buy a 32-acre property in the Sage Hills area of the Wenatchee Foothills. A conservation easement protecting 280 acres of Warm Springs Canyon (Nelson family) near Monitor is completed.