Badger Mountain Trail Use (report)
Final Badger Mnt Trail Use Survey.pdf  728 KBytes
A Badger Mountain trail use survey was recently conducted by David Comstock. For survey results click on this link.

Support of City of Richland grant application application - Badger Butte (letter)
BCParkBoardLetter1.pdf  1,438 KBytes
Letter is from the Benton County Park Board to the State of Washington Recreation and Conservation Office. In this letter the Benton County Park Board expresses its thanks to the Recreation and Conservation Office for its continued commitment to outdoor recreation in its many forms... The Park Board registers its support for the application for gran assistance being made by the City of Richland to the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program's Outdoor Recreation Account for assistance in purchasing undeveloped property in southern Richland. Targeted parcels are located on the eastern arm of Badger Mountain along... "Little Badger Mountain"...

Yakima Bluffs Park (flyer)
flyerHR2.zip  446 KBytes
One page black-and-white flyer that briefly describes the proposed park and provides contact and location information.

Yakima Bluffs, Environmental Learning Park (report)
Yakima Bluffs Proposal(1d)ONLINE.pdf  1,079 KBytes
“The Yakima Bluffs provide the best exposure of these ancient Yakima River deposits within the Columbia Basin.”

This report presents a vision for establishing a park at the City View business complex in Richland, WA. The proposed site features quality shrub-steppe habitat and access to riparian habitat along the shoreline of the Yakima River. A special feature is the Yakima Bluffs, providing a view of deposits from multiple ice age floods, the largest recorded floods known to have occurred on Earth. These attributes and others come together to make this an ideal environmental learning park. As an urban wildland and open space with a beautiful view of the river, located within a business center and within walking distance of residential areas, many will visit the park simply for its aesthetic qualities.