From the shoreline to the timberlands, we are protecting some of Jefferson County’s most fertile farmland, richest spawning grounds and busiest wildlife corridors. Come with us on a journey up the watershed!
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10:00 AM
This event is sold out. Please click here to view additional upcoming tour dates. Saturday, August 17 • 10:00 am – noon We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is […]
10:00 AM Work Party
Tuesday, August 27 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Let there be nurse logs! Help us help wildlife. This season we embark on a journey to create over 300 nurse logs, standing snags, and habitat piles for critters of many shapes and sizes. This work will require moving logs in teams over uneven terrain, and […]
9:00 AM
Friday, August 30 • 9:00 – 11:00 am We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is now working to transform it into a community forest that will open to the […]
Work Party • Saturday, August 31 • 9:00 am – noon & 1:00 – 400 pm Join us for the first volunteer work party at Chimacum Ridge Community Forest to help get it ready to open in 2025! We’ll be working on what will become the main access trail to Chimacum Ridge from the Valley […]
9:30 AM
Wednesday, September 11 • 9:30 – 11:30 am We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is now working to transform it into a community forest that will open to the […]
Saturday and Sunday, September 14 and 15, 2024 The mission of Jefferson County Farm Tour is to celebrate locally grown food, fiber, and farm-made products; invite community members to learn from and engage with their local farmers; and stimulate economic opportunity for farms in Jefferson County via self-guided tours of fourteen Jefferson County farms. […]
Tuesday, September 17 • 10:00 – noon We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is now working to transform it into a community forest that will open to the public […]
Saturday, September 21 • 10:00 am – noon We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is now working to transform it into a community forest that will open to the […]
1:00 PM
Thursday, September 26 • 1:00 – 3:00 pm We’re excited to welcome community members on public tours of Chimacum Ridge, a 918-acre forest at the heart of Chimacum. Jefferson Land Trust purchased Chimacum Ridge at the end of 2023 and is now working to transform it into a community forest that will open to the […]
Building on 35 years of conservation action, Jefferson Land Trust is pleased to announce the public launch of the $8.25 million Look to the Land fundraising campaign. This campaign will support some of the community’s best and most creative ideas for ways to protect and care for the land we share, and strengthen the Land […]
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On the evening of Thursday, July 11, more than 350 community members joined us near the beautiful marina at The Resort at Port Ludlow for an evening of inspiration and celebration at LandFest 2024! Our annual fundraising gala was extra special and bigger than ever this year as we marked 35 years of community-powered conservation. […]
In 2016, the Land Trust worked with the Short family to place a conservation easement on the 253-acre Short’s Family Farm, one of the largest productive farms in Jefferson County. In the summer of 2023, the Port of Port Townsend acquired Short’s Family Farm in Chimacum with the objective of developing and maintaining infrastructure and […]
“Tamanowas Rock-it’s the most sacred place… It’s the home of our ancestors. Our spirits are there.”
“To think that a place as beautiful as this will be here, undisturbed, and get to grow into an old forest again…That’s a big, big, big idea.”
“My husband’s family has been farming in Washington for five generations, and the working lands efforts of Jefferson Land Trust give us hope that our boys and other youth of this county will indeed have farmland to work if they so choose.”
“The Olympic Peninsula is the crown jewel among America’s natural wonders and deserves careful attention to preserve what wildness is still here. Because Jefferson Land Trust is a leader in the conservation of a large part of the Olympic Peninsula, I have looked to the Land Trust for opportunities to help in the preservation of this wonderful environment.”
