From dust to dust — to compost in Clark CountySubscriber Exclusive

Remember Land only site in world restoring wildlife habitat with mulch commingled with human remains

By Will Campbell, Columbian Associate Editor

Published: December 5, 2021, 6:05am

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Remember Land Executive Director Elliot Rasenick stands in front of a mound of NOR, or natural organic reduction, from Kent-based human composting funeral home Recompose. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

EAST OF BATTLE GROUND — Elliot Rasenick was silent for a long moment, the stillness broken only by the sound of a crow’s caw, flowing streams, and the wind rustling trees in the valley.

On 700 acres of recovering timberland near Bells Mountain east of Battle Ground, surrounded by shallow hills, he meandered toward a mound of deep-brown mulch with his head bowed.

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