Conservation Victory in Port Gamble Bay!
Port Gamble, Wash.
Kitsap Forest & Bay Coalition launched a crowd-funding campaign Jan. 17 on Indiegogo.com to help fill a funding gap to purchase and conserve the first 535 acres of forest and shoreline on Port Gamble Bay as part of the Kitsap Forest & Bay Project. The land comes with a $4.6 million price tag.
Contributors met and exceeded a goal of $8,000 in the first 48 hours of the crowd-funding campaign. Donations through Indiegogo reached $11,741 by the last day of the campaign Feb. 3.
These donations along with a generous donation from the Port Gamble S’Klallam tribe and others funding sources received over several years of effort – including a National Coastal Wetlands Conservation grant, Washington Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account grant, and funds from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program, and the Washington Department of Ecology – will allow the coalition to purchase the land.
All funds received beyond that goal will be used to further the mission of the Kitsap Forest & Bay Project. The project’s end goal is to conserve more than 6,700 acres of land in the Port Gamble Forest, North Kitsap Heritage Park Expansion, Divide Forest and Hansville Forest.
For more information about the Kitsap Forest & Bay Project, go to: www.kitsapforestbay.org
