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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4:00 PM
We’re inviting all stewardship volunteers join us for a relaxing (NOT work) party in thanks for all for your amazing work helping care for our Preserves.
You are warmly invited to come visit for Jefferson Land Trust’s Holiday Open House! We’re giving thanks for local farms, fish and forests, and for the community of people who cares about protecting them. Come eat, drink and be merry in celebration of everything we achieve by working together to preserve the land that sustains us all.
10:00 AM Work Party
Join us in the next step of restoring a conifer forest by removing non-native blackberry to create a clearing that we’ll plant later this winter. We’ll also remove non-native ivy, holly, and spurge laurel to allow a diversity of trees, shrubs, and understory to thrive. Space is limited, and RSVP is required.
More than 150 guests attended our recent 30th Anniversary Celebration, held at the Old Alcohol Plant in Port Hadlock. After refreshments and a short welcome, guests who were gathered on the lawn overlooking Port Townsend Bay, were encouraged to share memories and stories from the land and many did. Read more about it and view […]
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Jefferson Land Trust is working on a strategic plan that will guide our work over the next five years (2020-2024). Our survey closed at midnight on Friday, November 1. Thanks to everyone who participated. We sure appreciate it! Our long-term success is fundamentally linked to community partnership. We’re currently updating our Strategic Plan to ensure […]
The thank you notes and poems arrived soon after Port Townsend first and second graders visited Illahee Preserve to learn about salmon. Inside were messages filled with warmth and gratitude. “Thank you for the experience of being in the forest,” Addie H. wrote. “Thank you for saving the salmons,” said Laverna. “I loved being a […]
“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.”
