The most important thing to do is be educated and involved as our community grows.  Learn more

To help preserve what we love about the Methow—its rural scale and pace, its recreational possibilities, its sense of community—and to help us negotiate with McCormack/Vineyard, a well-financed corporation, we ask you to join us. Write letters. Bring in new members. Donate funds, legal- or land-use expertise.  Ask our Board what research or legwork you can do.

• Read
  Be aware of the growing spread of Rurbia.  Read ‘Round the Next Bend’ by Donald Snow.
  
  Every Drop for Sale by Jeffrey Rothfeder, a book about use and abuse of our diminishing clean water.
  
  Lasso the Wind by Timothy Egan, author of The Good Rain who writes in this book about the West and how “they have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it and subdivide it.”
   

• Log On
  Whatcom Watch Online  This is a site which has been tracking Sygitowiczs’ controversial project  in Bellingham- the Squalicum Mountain developments.  See the issues dated February and June of 2007 and of January 2008.
  
  Methow Valley Citizens Council  Read their Citizens Guide to Action which is a guideline on how to take part in local land use issues.
  
  The International Dark Sky Association  which is devoted to protecting night skies and reducing light pollution.
   

• Write
  Write letters to the Editor of the newspapers
  
  Write letters to the County Commissioners
  
  Write letters to the County Planning Commission (http://www.okanogancounty.org/planning/)

Related Links
Department of Ecology:  www.ecy.wa.gov/ecyhome.html 
Ecology links related to the Methow: www.ecy.wa.gov/apps/watersheds/wriapages/48.html 
Lower Methow Valley Planning: www.lowermethow.org/members.html
Methow Conservancy: www.methowconservancy.org
Methow Valley Citizens Council: www.okanogan1.com/mvcc/index.htm
Methow Valley News editor@methowvalleynews.com
Methow Valley Sport Trails Association www.mvsta.com 
Omak Chronicle: omaknews@eaglenewspapers.com
Partnership for a Sustainable Methow www.sustainablemethow.net 
Resource Dimensions www.ecologicalecon.com  Specializes in all facets of economic analysis related to land use, natural resource management, conservation planning and sustainable community development.
Trust for Public Lands: www.tpl.org
WA Rivers www.warivers.org  
Doublemre.com  www.doublemre.com