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Sustainable Partnerships for Preserving Farmlands and Wildlife: Overcoming Limiting Factors in Washington State

Explore the challenges faced by farmers in Western Washington due to globalization, development, and aging population. Learn about collaborative efforts to maintain farmlands and wildlife, focusing on trust, understanding, and innovative solutions involving stakeholders like tribes, family foresters, and fishermen.

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Sustainable Partnerships for Preserving Farmlands and Wildlife: Overcoming Limiting Factors in Washington State

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  1. Limiting Factors Jay Gordon Washington State Dairy Federation

  2. Barriers on the Landscape • Globalization of Agriculture • The Agriculture Industry is a Misnomer • Getting to Partnerships that Keep Farms AND Wildlife Healthy

  3. Understanding The pressure on Ag… Globalization. • Loss of Processors • Loss of farmers in Western Washington • Pressure on Existing Farms • Low income • Age of farmers • Development Keeping Farms will be a challenge!!

  4. Farmers are Not a Gregarious Specie • Independent, Stubborn & Determined • Circle the Wagons and Shoot In • Differences in TFW and AFW • Collaborators Conspire • So How Do We Keep Farmers and Wildlife?

  5. Trusting Relationships That Work… • First is Trust • We choose to keep farmland • Understand…then Seek to be Understood! • Solutions • CD’s & the Chehalis. • The Nooksack & The Skykomish Area. • The Tribes, Farmers, Family Foresters and Fishermen are wedded to the land. • Sammish Chinook and Delta Potatoes.

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