Everybody Out | Dry Gulch Preserve

It’s been called many things over the years: the Cannon Gold Mine, the Asamera Mine, the holdings of Conoco Phillips, the property purchased by the Appleatchee Riders. Now the land that borders Saddle Rock to the south and that was part of a mining operation until 1994 is known as the Dry Gulch Preserve. The property, which was once part of the second-largest gold operation in the United States, was purchased from Conoco Phillips in 2007 with the provision that the Land Trust would hold a conservation easement to it. This provision prevents this 700-acre parcel from ever being developed and will keep the heavy-metal, hazardous-waste nasties leftover from the mining days permanently buried.

Read the full article in the Wenatchee World.