In March, a key habitat-connectivity project made a huge leap closer to bridging the divide created by Interstate 5 in southwestern Washington state.
Conservation Northwest, the conservation group that launched its Cascades to Olympics connectivity program several years ago, announced on March 27 that the program's capital campaign had acquired its final piece of property.
The acquisition increases the possibility for building a wildlife overpass on Interstate 5 to offer animals migrating between the Cascade Mountains and the Olympic Mountains a safe passage over a perilous freeway. Although the overpass is not yet a done deal, southwest Washington is now much closer to restoring important habitat connectivity that was broken with the creation of the freeway.
Work remains to bring the wildlife overpass to fruition. However, it's almost within our grasp, and I look forward to the realization of this dream.
We're so close!
