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Landmark timber deal stops Seattle sprawl

May 13, 2002, www.hcn.org | “For over a century, local Washington residents have harvested the thick, rain-soaked forests of Douglas-fir, hemlock, and cedar blanketing the surrounding hills to feed its local mills and economy.  But more recently, a different crop has sprung up around town. Houses. ”

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Landmark timber deal stops Seattle sprawl

Overwhelmed by development in this bedroom community near Seattle, the town of Snoqualmie finds an ally in the Evergreen Forest Trust, which has purchased a huge tree farm that will enable logging to continue, and block sprawl.

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