Objectives: 1. Protect the most viable wildlife movement corridor linking the North Cascades and Kettle/Selkirk ecosystems. 2. Maintain the only low-elevation, biological corridor linking the Columbia Basin with the remaining endangered shrub-steppe/grassland habitats in Canada. Activities: Secure approximately 4,130 acres of critical riparian, shrub-steppe, and dry forest wildlife habitat, including over 10 miles of river/lake/stream frontage, through fee title and conservation easement (CE) purchases. Benefits: 1. Maintain linkage between the Cascades and Rockies populations of rare, wide-ranging carnivores and their ungulate prey (grizzly bear, gray wolf, lynx, wolverine, deer, moose, bighorn sheep). 2. Protect habitat for almost 80 internationally recognized at risk species, including 4 Federal, 8 State, and 35 Canadian listed species. 3. Improve management efficiencies by linking large blocks of existing public ownership. 5. Enhance public fishing, hunting, and watchable wildlife opportunities. 6. Help secure several stretches of the County’s planned regional trail network. 7. Support local economies through ecologically sustainable land use and the maintenance of working landscapes. 8. Compliments $10.4 million in partner funding already secured and will match future federal funding. 9. Part of a larger (80,000+ acre), multi-phase land conservation effort. 10. Addresses the objectives of local, state, regional and international planning efforts.