Protected Properties
Gold Creek
Kittitas County
Protected Since 2006
Acreage 552.0
- Kittitas County
- Forterra owns 241 acres. The Washington Department of Transportation owns 311 acres.
- Located two miles SE of Snoqualmie Pass
- Acquired by Forterra in September of 2006
- Part of the Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management Area and the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Project
- Composed of densely forested land and a NW-facing slope that descends steeply from Rampart Ridge to Gold Creek.
- A housing development is located to the west of the land
- Land is bounded in the east and south sides by National Forest land
- Unused logging road crosses the land on the SW portion used for non-motorized recreation
- Habitat to many species including Spotted Owls, Bull Trout, wolves, Grizzly Bears and lynx
- Conservation will prevent degradation of water quality in downstream systems and enhance effectiveness of new fish and wildlife crossing structures along I-90


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