Fundraising effort saves patch of state-managed forest in western WA from logging

By: Aspen Ford

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: May 12, 2026

Words: 615

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Environmental activists have raised the $32,000 needed to spare the trees surrounding a campground on the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula from logging.

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition paid Webster Logging to halt the cutting of a two-acre state-managed parcel around the Sadie Creek campground. Webster paid the Department of Natural Resources half of those funds, which will be divided between the agency and …

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