Sponsored by Curtis Wambach & PE Consultants LLC

Send Your Gift To:

MPG Foundation

4333 30th Avenue SE

Lacey, WA 98503

360-438-1985 Phone

360-438-6822 FAX

curtis@gopherfoundation.org

Introducing

Gopher Mitigation Exchange

Gopher Mitigation Exchange provides an alternative conservation strategy

designed to recover a State-listed species in a way that stimulates economic growth.

We need your support for Agency approval of this program, see below

Protect Your Land. 

• If you or someone you know is losing property because of the Mazama pocket gopher, you need to pay close attention because we can help. 

• We are proposing a new strategy to relocate pocket gophers from your valuable land to off-site locations. 

• This would free your property from these specific land use restrictions, while creating new gopher colonies elsewhere to assist in species recovery. 

Gopher Mitigation Exchange. 

• Gopher Mitigation Exchange is designed to resolve land use issues with a strategy that aims to recover the species over the long term.

• You would be able to relocate the Mazama pocket gopher from your valuable property to property of low land use potential owned by public, private, or non-profit entities. 

• Gopher Mitigation Exchange will provide an alternative conservation strategy designed to recover a State-listed species in a way that stimulates economic growth.

• The recovery of this species will benefit economic growth in urban centers, as this alternative conservation strategy provides economic incentives for species recovery.

How Mitigation Exchange Works. 

• Gopher Mitigation Exchange works by exchanging mitigation rights between land owners. 

• This is not mitigation banking.

• No elaborate credit based system dictated by governmental agencies. 

• Gopher Mitigation Exchange is more like off-site mitigation where mitigation rights are exchanged between land owners. 

• It is a simple, direct, and a straight forward way to fully utilize your property, while recovering a species, ultimately eliminating the need for species protection.

Get Cash for Your Junk Land. 

• If you own land under power lines, in critical areas, or otherwise of low land use value, you can cash in on mitigation exchange. 

• This is not mitigation banking. 

• There are no Agency controlled credits. 

• This process keeps exchanges in the private sector between land owners.

• We will match donors and recipients for a profitable exchange between interested parties.  Contact us at the information below for more details. 

• Fill out our no obligation PARTICIPATION FORM.

Show Your Support

Support the efforts of the Mazama Pocket Gopher Foundation & PE Consultants LLC as we seek Agency approval for this program

Your letter of support will demonstrate the demand for this program to Agencies

Download, fill in blanks or cut & paste text body onto your letterhead, and email back to us at curtis@gopherfoundation.org

CLICK HERE to download our letter template

(The letter does not obligate you to participate in the program)

Tax Deductible Contribution

$1,200--Premium Member

• Confidential gopher study and drawing showing mapped gopher mound locations

• Match you up with other land owners in our network

• Attend and participate in agency meetings

• Receive email updates

• Deduct as charitable contribution

• Send check or money order to the Address below:

Mazama Pocket Gopher Foundation

4333 30th Avenue SE

Lacey, WA 98503

Register to Participate

Sign up on the Gopher Mitigation Exchange Register.  It’s free with no obligation to participate in the program. The Gopher Mitigation Exchange Register matches you up with other participating land owners to explore profitable options for fully utilizing your real estate investment.

Complete Registration Form Click Here

Facts & Information

This program has not yet been approved by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.  We are exploring public interest and gathering support for agency approval.  With the approval of this program, we hope to administer a conservation strategy that will provide economic incentives to recover this State-listed species.  Gopher Mitigation Exchange will provide an alternative conservation strategy designed to recover a State-listed species in a way that stimulates economic growth.

360-438-1985 Office

or

360-790-1559 Cell

Ask for Curtis

Our mission

Our mission is to save the Mazama Pocket Gopher (Thomomys Mazama) through protecting, enhancing, and enlarging its preferred prairie habitat and through educating the public on important and practical issues that affect both people and gophers. 

More details? Click Here

What is a gopher?

The Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys Mazama) is a hamster-sized burrowing mammal that eats plants and creates mounds of dirt on the ground.  Important to note that gophers eat plants, unlike moles, which eat bugs and worms.  However, both species produce similar dirt mounds and can be found in close proximity.

Learn more about the Mazama Pocket Gopher. Click Here

Land Owners

Should I be petrified if I find a gopher on my property?  Will I have to give my land to gophers?  Will gophers damage my land?  Is there any benefit to have gophers on my property? 

It is true that gophers can affect your land use options.  First, you need to know if gophers are present on your property.  If gophers are present, you should become aware of responsible land use options.

If you suspect that there are gophers on your property, call for your gopher survey 360-438-1985.  Its tax deductible.

To make a contribution. Click Here

Free Gopher Survey

Limited Time Offer. Get your property surveyed for gophers.  Its fast, its easy, its confidential, and best of all, its tax deductible.  If are a property owner in Thurston or surrounding Counties, you might have gophers on your property.  Gophers can affect usable land and land use options. 

Your gopher survey is included in your tax deductible gift of $150 or more.  With this gift, you will be placed on our membership raster, making you eligible for news and information on how gophers may affect your land use plans. 

The gopher survey includes a map of gopher mounds on a property up to one acre in size.   Add $100 per additional acre.  Limited to one property survey on one parcel per gift. 

Limited Time offer.  Offer will expire without prior notice. 

To make a contribution. Click Here

For more information. Click Here

Where are gophers found?

The Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) is a regional endemic found only in western Washington, western Oregon and northern California.  In western Washington, it is known to occur in Thurston and surrounding Counties.  An abundant population can be found at the Olympia Airport.  Pocket gophers are typically identified by their crescent-shaped mound formations found in grassy areas. 

To learn more about gopher habitat, Click Here. 

Why protect gophers?

The Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys Mazama) has been State listed as threatened and has been proposed for Federal listing under the Endangered Species Act.  The Mazama pocket gopher population has declined with the displacement of local prairie habitat by agriculture, development, tree growth, and invasive weed invasion.  Pocket gophers play an important role in ecological communities by altering soil structure and chemistry, affecting plant occurrences, and serving as prey for many predators; their burrows provide a retreat for a wide variety of other species, including the western toad.

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Gophers with 600-feet

of property can limit

 Development

Help us research Thurston County 600-foot rule that may limit development within 600 feet of gophers.  Many land owners are asking how this rule affects their land use options.  We are performing an independent investigation into this mysterious regulation.  Becoming a member makes you eligible for news and information on how gophers may affect your land use plans. 

To make a contribution. Click Here

More Information coming soon

Make your Contribution

Mazama Pocket Gopher Foundation

PO Box 8761

Lacey, WA 98509

Contact us at:

PE Consultants LLC

360-438-1985

or

www.peconsultants.net

curtis@gopherfoundation.org