The six families of the Copper Notch Owners Association (CNOA) jointly own a stunning 280 acre property that includes 4,455 feet of shoreline along Icicle Creek and the forested hillside up to Mountain Home Road. The property had been voluntarily protected from development through a Planned Unit Development, which can be amended, and the owners wanted the more permanent protection that a conservation easement provides.

CNOA donated a conservation easement on the 280 acres to the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust in spring 2010, permanently protecting its high quality riparian vegetation and healthy, diverse forest in an area highly desirable for residential development. The property is adjacent to the Land Trust's Mountain Home Ridge Property and borders public lands to the south and across Icicle Creek, providing a significant protected corridor for wildlife, and protection to the quality of the Icicle Creek watershed and the viewscape from the valley.

The Upper Columbia Recovery Plan states that "the highest priority for protecting biological productivity should be to allow unrestricted stream channel migration, complexity, and flood plain function. The principal means to meet this objective is to protect riparian habitat in Category 1 and 2 subwatersheds." Icicle Creek is a Category 2 Watershed, a Minor Spawning Area for spring Chinook salmon, a Major Spawning Area for steelhead, and a Core Area for bull trout. The Recovery Plan also sets the Tier 3 Strategy for Icicle Creek to "protect existing riparian habitat and channel migration and floodplain function" and recommends "acquir(ing) conservation easements where appropriate from Leavenworth Hatchery to the mouth." This project is in that reach and is an important corridor for migration, adult holding, juvenile rearing, and overwintering.

This conservation easement is on private property and has no public access.