HOUSES TO LINE SILVER CREEK PRESERVE!

 Is that a headline you’d like to read in the paper? Impossible? No, unfortunately, it’s not.  This is an important moment for Silver Creek Preserve. You can ensure that such a headline never appears. The view across the road from Silver Creek—the farm fields and sagebrush hills, the deer heading down from the Picabo Hills—is not protected by conservation easement. That land could some day be covered in houses. While much of the Silver Creek Valley is protected by conservation easements, the important property directly across from the preserve remains unprotected. The open space, the wildlife habitat and the scenery could be gone.  You have the opportunity—today—to ensure that doesn’t happen. You have the chance to make sure the wildlife, working farms and ranches and clean water of Silver Creek stay that way.

The Nature Conservancy is in the process of purchasing a conservation easement on the property directly across from Silver Creek Preserve. It would protect 320 acres from development, now and for future generations. But we need your help.  Thirty five years ago, the land that is now Silver Creek Preserve came up for sale. Concerned citizens feared for its future. They didn’t despair. They recognized the moment, and they seized it. That started a conservation tradition that has resulted in 10,000 acres of conservation along the creek.  Today is another moment for Silver Creek. And you can help shape the future.

Some day, when you bring your grandchildren to the preserve, you could point across to that glorious open space with its deer and elk and sagebrush, and say: “I helped make that possible. I protected that land.”  We invite you to play a role in Silver Creek’s conservation heritage. Every donation helps.  Seize the moment. Protect Silver Creek now and for the future.  Please call 788-7910 for more information or to make your donation. Download PDF donation form.   

(above top) Cars at the visitor center with property in the background,  (above) potential easement property from Silver Creek Preserve entrance

To help us protect Silver Creek, please send your donation to:

Silver Creek Preserve

PO Box 624 

Picabo, ID. 83348

Or donate online at:  http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/idaho/ or  savesilvercreek.org

Thank you to all the people who help keep Silver Creek special!!