January 2018

Property owners Jabe Blumenthal, Julie Edsforth, and Don Poirier place a conservation easement, held by the Land Trust, on their Hay Canyon Ranch property – permanently protecting these lands from any future development. The property also has some unique qualities that make it particularly resilient to the effects of climate change. Its large size, diversity of habitat - from shrub-steppe to forest - and the connectivity to public lands will allow plants and wildlife the room to move and re-establish as our climate changes. 

The 2,000-acre, privately-owned Cashmere Canyons Preserve will be open to the public for hiking once a suitable trailhead is built on land in Nahahum Canyon.