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
Oh, Donovan! So much beauty, but SO many weeds! Those who have visited Lower Donovan Creek cannot forget the expansive views, recovering stream, and bright, young plant community. We’ll target bittersweet nightshade and follow up on springtime yellow flag iris removal in this former pasture that’s in the process of being restored to a salmon stream […]
1:30 PM
The heart of Port Townsend’s Quimper Wildlife Corridor (QWC) includes an area known as “Cappy’s Trails,” a mostly undeveloped, open area with ribbons of trails named for the late William “Cappy” Capriotti, a much-loved local resident. Originally a college thesis developed by Kathleen Mitchell, who recognized the environmental importance of QWC, it also was the […]
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 […]
Since 1992, Jefferson Land Trust has been working with partners and the community to protect one small parcel after another to build a ribbon of green that preserves the wetlands, wildlife, and popular trails of the Quimper Peninsula. In early 2021, we launched the Quimper Wildlife Corridor Challenge: an ambitious plan to protect up to […]
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Jefferson Land Trust is seeking volunteers for a hands-on, boots-on, first-time-ever opportunity. We need a number of people willing to take an active role in our upcoming wetland ecological health assessment. Through data collection on the land, the assessment will measure wetland health at Chai-yakh-wh Preserve, Duckabush Oxbow and Wetlands Preserve, Snow Creek Forest Preserve, […]
During the week of April 4-8, Jefferson Land Trust’s 2022 Youth Corps interns spent their spring breaks undertaking a variety of key restoration projects across several of our nature preserves. Six high school students from Jefferson and Kitsap counties joined Land Trust Preserve Manager Carrie Clendaniel and Office and Preserve Assistant Cristina Villalobos, as well […]
“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.”
