Conservation groups announce deal to buy Nason Ridge land.

LAKE WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust and Western Rivers Conservancy have teamed up to work on permanently conserving Lake Wenatchee’s Nason Ridge.

“There’s a tremendous amount of interest in seeing this area conserved in the greater Lake Wenatchee community,” Sue Doroff, president of Western Rivers Conservancy, said Monday.

Western Rivers signed an agreement to buy 3,714 acres from Weyerhaeuser Company in March. It includes a steep, forested mountainside on the southeastern shore of Lake Wenatchee.

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