Homesteading family’s lasting legacy realized in agreement to return nearly 10,000 acres of habitat to Colville Tribes in conservation deal

As a homesteading families name dies off, nearly 10,000 acres of shrub-steppe habitat is returned to the Colville Tribes in unique conservation deal

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Tue., Oct. 19, 2021

The Lower Tunk valley.

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McLoughlin Canyon near the Tunk Valley in Washington.

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Looking west in the Tunk Valley.

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Looking south in the Tunk Valley.

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Split rock in the Tunk Valley is part of a nearly 10,000-acre parcel now controlled and conserved by the Colville Tribes.

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