Both of Janet Baker’s properties are thirty-five miles north of Spokane, between Ponderosa and Horseshoe Lake and lie within the Little Spokane Watershed. The distance between the two properties is only a half a mile. Janet felt a strong connection to land since she grew up in Franklin County on a wheat farm. She instilled the same appreciation for the outdoors into her sons when she relates, “They loved escaping into the woods.” Janet’s land easements will achieve her goal of keeping the land in her family for generations to come.

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Beryl Baker’s conservation easement is located 26 miles north of Spokane and 6 miles north of Deer Park. The scenic land borders such outlying local favorites as Little Grouse Mountain and the Colville National Forest. Beryl Baker purchased the property in 1966 after seeing an ad in the Wall Street Journal. “I needed a change from banking in Seattle,” he said with a chuckle. He wanted to return to the land and make his own way. A sentiment most likely instilled from a childhood growing up on a wheat farm near Kahlotus, Washington.

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