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

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 county beneficiaries.

“I honestly never dreamed we would raise that money so quickly,” said WendyRae Johnson, member of the coalition. “If we raised $32,000 in four days? Hello. People really said yes to it.”

Activists raised the money online with a GoFundMe campaign.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/fundraising-effort-saves-patch-of-state-managed-forest-in-western-wa-from-logging/