Mountain Home Ridge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 6, 2026

Contact: Dania Contreras, CDLT Communications Coordinator, (509)667-9708, [email protected]

Celebrating 40 Years of Conservation

This year, the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust (CDLT) is celebrating 40 years of protecting the land and water that make North Central Washington special.

The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust  and Columbia Valley Community Health are excited to continue our Hike for Health Series! Throughout this series, participants will have an opportunity to connect with nature and learn about the benefits nature has on our physical, mental, and emotional health. 

🌍Connecting with nature aids our physical, mental, and emotional health. Join Columbia Valley Community Health and the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust on a Hike for your Health.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Wenatchee Mountains Checker-mallow Working Group received the 2022 Recovery Champion awards, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced Friday.

The group helped recover the endangered Wenatchee Mountains checker-mallow plant that only grows in a few meadows of Chelan County.

Managing for Forest Health on Mountain Home Preserve
  
Land Trust property closed for forest thinning operation

The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust will temporarily close its Mountain Home Preserve to the public beginning October 23rd. Thirty acres of CDLT’s 170-acre property on Mountain Home Road above Leavenworth will be thinned to improve its health and resilience to drought, bark beetle attack, and wildfire.