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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1:00 PM Work Party
Let us hope that spring showers bring summer flowers! Join Jefferson Land Trust and the Jefferson County Washington Native Plant Society to mulch a young native plant diversity restoration planting at the beautiful Snow creek Forest Preserve. We’ll be moving cardboard and woodchips to create a weed-suppressing, moisture-holding mulch around tender young plants installed by […]
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The 65-acre Valley View Forest was purchased in late 2018. Jefferson Land Trust was in the first phases of protecting the adjacent Chimacum Ridge forest from development in partnership with the Navy, the Trust for Public Land, and the state legislature, when the opportunity to purchase Valley View Forest—nestled between Chimacum Ridge, Center Road, and […]
6:00 PM
Join us at our annual summer gala to celebrate the land that inspires us! On Thursday, July 7 from 6 – 9 pm, Luke Burbank, host of Live Wire and Too Beautiful to Live, will be our guide to an evening of inspiration from nature featuring keynote speaker Lyndsie Bourgon, author of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods. Buy your tickets today and gather with us in person on the lawn at Finnriver Farm & Cidery […]
10:00 AM Work Party
Tuesdays, July 12 and 26 – 10:00am to 1:00pm Summertime! Let us celebrate the new season with an old favorite — Valley View Forest. We will ogle young ferns and sunlit trees as we collect long branches and logs for a fall accessible trail project. This work will involve some extra walking over uneven terrain and […]
Jefferson Land Trust is pleased to celebrate the recent protection of a 91-acre property of forest, wetland, and streams at the headwaters of Discovery Creek with our longtime partners Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI) and the U.S. Navy. It’s the most recent accomplishment in two decades of conservation work by many organizations and partners in the […]
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Over the 2021-22 school year, Jefferson Land Trust expanded our youth education programming with an exciting new year-long bird project with four third-grade classes and one multi-age OPEPO (OPtional Education PrOgram) class of third and fourth graders at Salish Coast Elementary School in Port Townsend. Birds are not only interesting and iconic, they’re also great […]
Nature in Your Neighborhood is an online program developed by Jefferson Land Trust during the Covid-19 pandemic to help people in Jefferson County and beyond learn about our local flora and fauna from local naturalists and biologists. Now, we’re pleased to announce the opening of Nature in Your Neighborhood On Demand: a section on our […]
“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.”
