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The White Eagle Memorial Preserve is a Conservation Burial Ground founded in 2008 and licensed by the state of Washington. This 20 acre cemetery is set within 1300 wild acres of permanently protected oak and ponderosa forest, meadow and steppe on the edge of spectacular Rock Creek Canyon near the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in Washington State. Our mission is to provide a natural alternative to the death care industry as it currently exists in America.

Our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to Nature. Our bodies are a natural resource and when we die, shouldn't they be gifted back to Nature to further the cycles of life? Current cemetery practices waste a tremendous amount of resources insuring that are remains are prevented from returning to their source. At the White Eagle Burial Ground, each gravesite becomes an opportunity to restore the landscape with native plants and nourish, as a living memorial, the wildness and beauty already present. Every visit to a loved one’s grave site is an opportunity to connect with nature and feel the beauty and presence of this wild place.

In essence, we see our conservation burial ground as an after life community linked directly to nature’s everlasting continuum.