American Farmland Trust - Pacific Northwest Regional Office
Don Stuart, Pacific Northwest States Director
American Farmland Trust
Pacific Northwest Office
3211 Beacon Ave S #26
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: 206-860-4222
Email: dstuart [at] farmland.org
Web: http://www.farmland.org/programs/states/wa/default.asp
The American Farmland Trust is devoted to preserving agricultural land and promoting sustainable farming practices nationwide. The Pacific Northwest regional office is promoting the purchase of agriculture conservation easements as a strategic tool for protecting farmland from development.

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Futurewise
Contact: Aaron Ostrom, Executive Director
814 Second Ave, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-343-0681
Email: aaron [at] futurewise.org
Web: http://www.futurewise.org
Futurewise (formerly 1,000 Friends of Washington) brings citizens together to manage growth and stop sprawl. They recognize that only through proper planning will forests and farms be preserved. They provide information on implementing the Growth Management Act and are active in the defense of farmland against urban sprawl.

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King County Farm Preservation Program
Contact: Judy Herring, Property Rights Specialist
King County Farmland Preservation Program
201 S Jackson St, Suite 0600
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-296-1470
Email: judy.herring [at] metrokc.gov
Web: http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/lands/farmpp.htm
In 1979 the citizens of King County passed an initiative that created a national model for preserving farmland through the purchase of development rights. Since that time the King County Farm Preservation Program has permanently protected 12,800 acres of prime farmland in the Green, Sammamish, and Snoqualmie River Valleys, on the Enumclaw Plateau, and on Vashon Island.

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Okanogan Valley Land Council
PO Box 1538
Oroville, WA 98844
Phone: 509-476-2206
Email: info [at] ovlandcouncil.org
Web: http://www.ovlandcouncil.org
Through conservation easements and other preservation strategies, the Okanogan Valley Land Council seeks to maintain the land base essential for sustaining agriculture and forestry, as well as for wildlife and open space.

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PCC Farmland Trust
Kathryn Gardow, Executive Director
909 NE 43rd St, Suite 208
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206-547-9855
Email: kathryn.gardow [at] pccsea.com
Web: www.pccfarmlandtrust.org
The PCC Farmland Trust was created in 1999 by PCC Natural Markets, the nation's largest retail food cooperative, to secure and preserve threatened farmland and move it into organic production. The Trust works to assure land for farming; livelihood for farmers and farming communities; local, fresh organic produce; and loyalty between the people who grow the food and the people who eat it. In 2000 the Trust was incorporated as an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, with PCC as first among its corporate donors. The Trust has been generously supported by the community; since inception more than 1,400 donors have contributed nearly $1,000,000, sufficient to save more than 500 acres of farmland.

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Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland
Allen Rozema, Executive Director
PO Box 2405
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Phone: 360-336-3974
Email:   allenr [at] skagitonians.org
Web:    http://www.skagitonians.org  
Known as the “Magic Skagit,” Washington’s Skagit Valley is struggling to sustain its agricultural heritage. Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland is a nonprofit land trust dedicated to protecting that heritage through public and landowner education, and through land preservation strategies including conservation easements and outright purchase. The organization also works to sustain commercial agriculture in the valley by promoting marketing opportunities for local farmers and by advocating for supportive public policies.

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For more information see:

Farmland Preservation Techniques and Sustainable Agriculture
www.mrsc.org/subjects/planning/farmland.aspx

Washington Office of Farmland Preservation
http://ofp.scc.wa.gov 

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Land Preservation category edited by

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