Blanchard Mountain on KPLU

Radio news piece on the Blanchard agreement and its larger context of working timberlands versus development in the front country. The piece leaves out the key piece of the agreement: that the state will be buying $12 million worth of nearby private timberland to prevent sprawl in the foothills of the Chuckanuts.

It's a sunny early summer day, Mitch Friedman stands on Blanchard Mountain in the Chuckanut range south of Bellingham. The vista is impressive...