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 Work Party
Tuesday, January 24, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Valley View Forest in Chimacum Back at it! We’ll bring the shovels and the trees, if you bring yourself and an enthusiasm for planting young seedlings. To kick off this planting season, we will be welcoming a few new fir seedlings to the sunny openings within the […]
Tuesday, February 14 • 10am-1pm Chai-yahk-wh Preserve on Marrowstone Island Part 1 of 2! Help us add a diversity of native shrubs along the sunny edge of the forest, and in sunny pockets surrounded by established alder and snowberry forest. Directions: Chai-yahk-wh Preserve parking area on Flagler Road, across from Griffith Point Road on Marrowstone […]
Tuesday, February 28 • 10am-1pm • Chai-yahk-wh Preserve on Marrowstone Island Part 2 of 2! Help us add a diversity of native shrubs along the sunny edge of the forest, and in sunny pockets surrounded by established alder and snowberry forest. Directions: Chai-yahk-wh Preserve parking area on Flagler Road, across from Griffith Point Road on […]
Tuesday, March 7 • 10am-1pm • Valley View Forest in Chimacum Wildlife habitat, native plant diversity, and easy access for long-term learning! Yes, please! This week we’ll be working on a small planting to showcase some our wonderful native species within full view of our new Nature Studies pavilion. Directions: From Chimacum Corner, travel 1.7 […]
9:00 AM
Thursday, March 16th • 9:00-10:30am • Virtual This year, we’ll gather virtually to hear from award-winning author and environmental philosopher Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore as she offers insights about how we can respond directly to the moral urgency of climate change by transforming our love of natural places into environmental action. There is no cost […]
6:00 PM Fundraiser
Thursday, July 13th • 6:00-9:00pm • Finnriver Farm & Cidery LandFest is our beloved signature summer celebration, held “on the land” at Finnriver Farm & Cidery. We’ll enjoy a gourmet, locally-sourced farm-to-table fundraising dinner and welcome special speakers, including featured speakers University of Washington geologist Dr. David Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé. Co-authors of multiple […]
Creating a conservation burial program that offers local natural burial options, while also supporting land conservation and restoration, is something the Land Trust has been focused on for a number of years. In 2021, after investigating such programs and gauging local interest, the Land Trust’s Board of Directors granted approval to move forward in creating […]
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In December 2022, following years of activism by the land trust movement and conservation allies on Capitol Hill and around the nation, the United States Congress passed the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act as part of its year-end spending bill. “It’s a really exciting moment,” says Richard Tucker, Executive Director of Jefferson Land Trust. […]
Please join us in celebrating the recent protection of a beautiful 32-acre upland forest and shoreline property that was generously donated to the Land Trust by Carolyn and Clayton Wright after being in Carolyn’s family for more than a century. Located just north of Brinnon along the west side of Highway 101, with a sliver […]
“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.”
