{"id":164,"date":"2005-04-27T09:23:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/archive\/2005\/04\/conservation-group-to-buy-sam-hill-climbing-area\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T13:23:25","slug":"conservation-group-to-buy-sam-hill-climbing-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/conservation-group-to-buy-sam-hill-climbing-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation group to buy Sam Hill climbing area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trust For Public Land<\/a> is buying a popular central Washington climbing area,  the privately owned, 40-acre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonclimbers.org\/Current\/SamHill\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Hill<\/a> climbing area.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&#038;slug=WA%20Rock%20Climbing\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The area is located about three miles up Icicle Valley from Leavenworth on the east slope of the Cascades.<\/p>\n<p>The land then will be turned over to the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust to be protected from development and kept open to climbers.<\/p>\n<p>The rocky site with at least a dozen named crags will be the third climbing area in the Icicle Valley to be purchased by the national land trust in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re making a fairly significant statement that not every piece of flat land in the Icicle is destined to have a house on it,&#8221; said Freeman Keller, a longtime Wenatchee climber who lobbied the national trust to buy the land.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here<br \/>\nThe trust agreed to buy the undeveloped Sam Hill land from Dr. Roger Volkmann of Wenatchee for $226,000 after the entire purchase amount was donated by Leavenworth environmentalist Harriet Bullitt&#8217;s Icicle Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The owner was considering selling on the market and it could have been developed into home sites,&#8221; said Kristin Newman, the Bend, Ore.,-based project manager for the Trust for Public Land. &#8220;There was concern whether public access would still be allowed at this heavily used recreation area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trust For Public Land is buying a popular central Washington climbing area, the privately owned, 40-acre Sam Hill climbing area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-2E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}