Hoh River: We did it!
Western Rivers Conservancy believes in perseverance. If there’s a reach of river that deserves conservation, we’ll work tirelessly for it. The Hoh River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula is a perfect example. After seven years negotiating with three successive landowners of the same property, we finally completed purchase of the property on Friday! We now have acquired of all of the major corporate-owned lands along the mainstem Hoh –- something we set out to achieve a decade ago.
We’re not done yet. We still have to convey these nearly 2,000 acres into the permanent stewardship of the Hoh River Trust. When this is complete, Western Rivers Conservancy will have protected almost 7,000 acres of habitat along the finest remaining salmon and steelhead river in the continental United States. The result: The entire mainstem Hoh will be preserved from Olympic National Park to the Pacific Ocean.
We're in the home stretch of this decade-long effort to forever safeguard the Hoh River for native salmon, wildlife and people. Our sincere thanks go to the Bullitt Foundation, Packard Foundation, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Congressman Norm Dicks, Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and everyone who is working to see this final acquisition to completion.