Political Buzz » Key Peninsula http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics Talking WA politics. Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Pierce County – with help from conservation friends – acquires Devil’s Head for public use http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/07/14/pierce-county-with-help-from-conservation-friends-acquires-devils-head-for-public-use/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/07/14/pierce-county-with-help-from-conservation-friends-acquires-devils-head-for-public-use/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:01:49 +0000 Kris Sherman http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/?p=13901

It seems like you can see forever from Devil’s Head. The tip of Pierce County’s Key Peninsula has sweeping views of Puget Sound, its wooded islands, its snow-capped mountains.

It’s travel poster stuff. And now, it’s in public hands.

But don’t put on your hiking boots just yet; it will be some time before its publicly accessible.

The 94-acre swath at the toe of the Key Peninsula was acquired by Pierce County Tuesday with the help of a coalition of conservation partners, including the Cascade Land Conservancy, according to a news release.

It includes about a mile of shoreline, two …

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