In a bipartisan approach to land protection, the House Natural Resource Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would permanently reauthorize the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
This is great news for the Pacific Crest Trail.
With the committee vote, the legislation to renew the country’s most important land ... Read more
We are happy to announce that the Pacific Crest Trail Association recently sold 402 acres at Stevens Pass, Washington — a gateway to some of the most spectacular wilderness in the North Cascades — to the U.S. Forest Service.
The property was set to be developed with vacation ... Read more
What do Pacific Crest Trail hikers, train robbers, President Rutherford B. Hayes and the pacific fisher have in common? They all have traveled through the 1,771-acre Mountcrest Forest in southern Oregon. This privately owned property on Siskiyou Pass connects the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
The ... Read more
Stevens Pass, a key Pacific Crest Trail access point in the Cascade Range east of Seattle, is the PCTA’s latest land protection purchase.
On Wednesday, after years of work and major help from private donors and trail lovers, we closed the $1.6 million acquisition, buying 402 acres from a private ... Read more
America’s most important conservation and recreation program, which has protected land in nearly every state, will expire on Sept. 30, 2018 without action from Congress.
Since it was created by Congress in 1965, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has provided the money to set aside property for national ... Read more
The Pacific Crest Trail Association, The Trust for Public Land, the Michigan-California Timber Company and the U.S. Forest Service are spearheading an effort to protect a northern California timber property that includes 17 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and we’ve secured funding for the first phase of this important ... Read more
Life is marked by many milestones — first steps, first words, graduations and promotions. Any PCT thru-hiker will tell you that a long-distance hike also can be measured in milestones. For northbound hikers, a major milestone is crossing the state line into Oregon after completing 1,689 miles in California.
Donomore ... Read more
With only six months to save Landers Meadow, you rose to the challenge and met our goal of $550,000 to save this 245-acre rare wet meadow. Thank you so much for your support of the campaign, the PCT and the trail experience.
PCTA executive director and ceo Liz Bergeron recently ... Read more
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