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For our work in the Central and North Puget Sound and for organization-wide questions, please contact our main office in Seattle: 901 5th Avenue, Suite 2200 Seattle, WA 98104 T 206-292-5907 F 206-292-4765 For our work in the South Sound area, please contact our office in Tacoma: 1119 Pacific Avenue, Suite 1300 Tacoma, WA 98402 T 253-274-4955 For our work in Central Washington, please contact our office in Ellensburg: 409 North Pine Street Ellensburg, WA 98926 T 509-962-1654 on the cover: RIFFE LAKE. PHOTO BY BENJAMIN HAYES In late July, Tacoma Power purchased a conservation easement on 1,850 acres of land near Riffe Lake in Lewis County. Forterra helped negotiate the purchase from landowner Pope Resources. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will manage the land. The 23.5-mile long Riffe Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in western Washington. The forests around the lake are home to a wide variety of wildlife species including elk, deer, bald eagle, pileated woodpecker and numerous others. Forterra mainline: 206-292-5907 Please contact the following individuals for particular business needs at Forterra: EXECUTIVE Gene Duvernoy, President, 206-905-6900 Bonne Tabb, Assistant to the President, 206-905-6900 Teresa Macaluso, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, 206-905-6949 2 Ann Gygi, General Counsel, 206-905-6938 CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Michelle Connor, Executive Vice President, Strategic Enterprises, 206-905-6899 Jill Scheffer, Senior Conservation Managing Director, 509-962-1654 Liz Johnston, Conservation Transactions Director, 206-905-6925 Table of Contents Riffe Lake. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 3 Message from the President 4 Our Vision 5 Out and About 6 Highway 101 Revisited 8 Small City Success, a Q&A with Sumner Mayor Dave Enslow 11 The True Nature of Our Urban Forests 12 The Gubernatorial Candidate Forum, a Model for Success 13 17th Annual Conservation Awards Breakfast 14 Meeting the Challenge of Seven Generations at the Duwamish Hill Preserve 16 Keeping the Farm in the Family 17 Altruism and Advocacy 18 Volunteer with Forterra 19 Chair’s Perspective FORTERRA.ORG
message from the president //////////////////////////////////// Mark Twain wrote that “distance lends enchantment to the view.” It also gives a perspective and sense of depth. That is why so many of us climb mountains and gaze at the world around. It also played into my thoughts as I attended a land and conservation conference in Aix en Provence, France. Participants were from France, Spain, USA, India and Australia. I left with a conviction that our region has much to offer as we all work to become more sustainable. We also have much to learn from companion efforts around the globe. After the conference, my wife Carolyn and I spent time walking to various hill towns in the Luberon and then a few days with French family members. It turned out to be a busman’s holiday to some extent. I pondered what made these French cities and towns click? How do our relatives spend their time away from work? The response of course is hugely complex, but it is answered in part by the vitality of the French Café Culture. The communities put considerable value in their central meeting places. They are places to appreciate the company of neighbors, discuss life and politics and whatever else; places that create that special something that makes a community a desirable place to live. We refer to these as third places – not our home or work, but that third necessary place to round out our social lives. That deep sense of place has defined many cultures for centuries. It is something Forterra thinks hard about as we help create great communities where our families celebrate living, which allows us to conserve our spectacular wild and working lands. In this issue you’ll read about our partnership with several cities and tribes on the Olympic Peninsula to define the ingredients of a great western town. From the eastern side of the Sound, Sumner Mayor Dave Enslow and Tukwila Council Member De’Sean Quinn’s articles reflect on the importance of a strong sense of community and gathering spaces. In addition, you’ll read about the Green Everett Partnership (the sixth and newest Green City), our Urban Forestry Research, the conservation of Kittitas County’s Triple Creek Ranch, our Washington Conservation Corps crewmembers and much more. Several weeks ago, we did our own place making and moved to a new main office. The office space is in a LEED certified building and was designed from the ground up with consideration to who we are and how we work. The space demonstrates our long term commitment to make this region all it can be. It also puts into architectural form what is within our organizational DNA—that we have a fresh and demonstrably successful approach to solving serious problems of sustainability for our region. For our employees, it provides a foundation to be even more collaborative and successful than we are today. It provides an even crisper sense of our mission and culture so we stay laser focused on creating great communities and conserving great lands. And, it simply will be a more fun space for us to do our work. So from traveling around to hill top villages in France to travelling a few blocks across town to a new central office space, this summer has been eventful and has offered many lessons about how to be both livable and sustainable. Forterra is committed to putting these lessons into action. I also have squeezed in a few days to scramble to some of my favorite nearby peaks. I am happy to report the view remains enchanting indeed. POLICY Skip Swenson, Senior Managing Director, Policy, 206-905-6935 Alison Van Gorp, Urban Policy Director, 206-905-6892 Leda Chahim, Government Affairs Director, 206-905-6922 STEWARDSHIP Hayes Swinney, Interim Managing Director, 206-905-6950 Kory Kramer, Green Cities Manager, 206-905-6923 DEVELOPMENT & OUTREACH Giyen Kim, Managing Director Development and Marketing, 206-905-6930 Natalie Cheel, Marketing Director, 206-905-6927 Jodie Galvan, Major Gifts Officer, 206-905-6950 Kristen Kosidowski, Outreach Program Manager, 206-905-6931 BUSINESS SERVICES Teresa Macaluso, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, 206-905-6949 Ann Gygi, General Counsel, 206-905-6938 Melissa Laird, Controller, 206-905-6918 Christopher Walter, GIS Director, 206-905-6898 Gene Duvernoy, President FALL 2012
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Page 11 and 12: THE TRUE NATURE OF OUR URBAN FOREST
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