Landsburg Reach Traditional Geocache
Ice and Wind: The cache owner has not responded to issues with this listing, so I must regretfully archive it. If the issues with this cache are resolved in the very near future (less than 3 months) the cache owner can email me and assuming the cache still meets the guidelines I can unarchive it.
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Part of an extensive regional trail system that is popular with equestrians and hikers. Deer and elk are often seen in this area. Big Bend and Landsburg Reach Natural Areas are both located within the Landsburg Reach of the Cedar River: Big Bend is 96 acres and Landsburg Reach Natural Area is 24 acres. Portions of the sites are adjacent to the King County Cedar River Regional Trail, as well as to City of Seattle's Cedar River Pipeline Road, which is also used as a trail.
Landsburg Reach is located slightly more than a mile east of Maple Valley, near the Cedar River Watershed's western boundary at Landsburg Road SE. The site span both sides of the Cedar River. The Walsh Lake Diversion Ditch flows through Big Bend Natural Area, and other side channels and valley floor wetlands occur on the Natural Area.
This reach of the Cedar River contains high-bank bluffs noted for their contribution of gravel to the river. The sites support mixed coniferous/deciduous second-growth forest relatively mature in age, also including stands predominated by coniferous, deciduous, or wetland vegetation.
Invasive vegetation is present particularly along disturbed portions of the Cedar River channel. Pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians traveling the Cedar River Trail pass through Big Bend Natural Area along the regional trail corridor, to or from the trailhead parking one mile east at Landsburg Road SE. There are no other parking areas for these Natural Areas.
The Backcountry Horsemen and the Friends of Rock Creek Valley are key community partners at these sites, contributing significant time and energy to observing site and trail conditions, picking up litter, and other activities related to trails at the site.
The riverfront is also used by boaters and fishermen mostly on a seasonal basis. Landsburg Reach Natural Area supports little public use, except for trail connections between nearby Danville/Georgetown trails and the Cedar River Pipeline Road.
This cache was placed as part of the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the use of Conservation Futures. Since 1982, King County had partnered with cities, nonprofit groups and civic leaders to protect 111,000 acres of land from development including 99,000 acres of Cascade foothills; 3,200 acres of urban greenbelts and parks; 4 miles of Puget Sound shoreline; 4,700 acres of riparian habitat on rivers and creeks; and leveraged $150 million in matching funds.
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