Welcome
White Eagle Memorial Preserve is a conservation burial ground founded in 2008, licensed by the state of Washington, and part of Sacred Earth Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, which stewards both White Eagle and Ekone Ranch summer camps and adult programming.
Weather Update:
We are opening back up for at-need burials and tours - starting April 19th.
Please contact Jodie at whiteeagle@ekone.org to schedule a visit.
COVID-19 Update:
Thanks for your interest and understanding during these uncertain times. Our hearts are together in care and concern. We are scheduling in-person tours again, or you may wait to decide on your particular place at a later date. We request that tour and burial guests self-test and follow current protocols and stay home if you are experiencing symptoms or testing positive.
Due to our wilderness location, we do not have internet access in the cemetery and are unable to offer live-streaming, but family or staff may video record the burial to share with loved ones who are unable to attend.
WEMP conservation burial ground spans 20 acres adjacent to Rock Creek Canyon, set within a larger wilderness of 1138 acres of permanently protected oak and ponderosa forest, meadow, and steppe near the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. This land is habitat for deer, coyote, cougar, eagles, wild turkeys, steelhead in the canyon creek, western grey squirrels, rattlesnakes, and the occasional bear or lynx . Our mission is to steward and protect this ecosystem, and to provide families with meaningful conservation burial opportunities.
We are certified by the Green Burial Council as a Conservation Burial Ground, and we are one of nine founding members of the Conservation Burial Alliance, dedicated to conservation stewardship and education.
Please consider supporting our Conservation Fund, and our stewardship work in the Upper Rock Creek watershed. Donors who gift $1000 and more will be honored in a permanent installation at the White Eagle gateway. Legacy planning gifts are another way to ensure that your values in life sustain this place for the long term. As we are a 501c3 organization, these donations are tax-deductible. Please note, cemetery site payments are for goods and services and therefore Not tax-deductible, according to the IRS.
Here are a few more glimpses into Conservation Burial at White Eagle:
In Print: An article from one of our stewards, published in High Country News
CLOSER TO THE LIGHT: A short musical video tour of White Eagle
IN VIDEO: Watch the video about one of our early burials, that went nationwide with Associated Press, and this new featurette (below) made by a community member whose husband was buried at White Eagle in 2018.
IN RADIO: Listen to our interviews on Voices of the Methow and Funeral Fact Podcast
