The McKenzie River Trust (MRT) has just purchased and protected a 217 acre property on the Siuslaw River for fish and wildlife habitat conservation. The Waite Ranch estuary acquisition builds on other land protection efforts over the last 20 years, adding to a network that includes The Nature Conservancy’s Cox Island property, ODFW’s Bull Island, private properties enrolled in the federal Wetland Reserve Program and other conservation easements, and the Wilbur Island Wetland Mitigation Bank. Continue reading
