Thanks to the generosity of our community, our funding goal was achieved as of October 4, 2018, more than a week before our deadline! Next steps: close on the property and begin creating the preserve.
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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
Please join us in the forest above Snow Creek to remove holly in order to open up the area for native forest plants and processes.
8:00 AM
Our partners at CedarRoot Folk School are hosting this year’s Wildlife Track and Sign Workshop! Spend two full days in the field with professional wildlife tracker, naturalist, and educator David Moskowitz. David has an approach that is highly interactive, with “test” questions starting in the first moment of class— he actively engages participants in identification […]
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Learn how to teach others about the natural wonders around you. Whether you want to lead guided walks for Jefferson Land Trust, pursue a career as an interpretive guide, or just share your love of nature or cultural resources with your family and friends, this 32-hour Certified Interpretive Guide Training will teach you skills to engage and inspire others in fun and meaningful ways.
Calling all volunteers! Come help us build benches for local nature preserves so people of all ages and all levels of mobility can enjoy trails and green spaces.
Join us for this first opportunity to lend a hand on the land at our newly established nature preserve on Marrowstone Island! This will be the first of many work events to prepare the preserve for public access in the future.
4:00 PM
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.
In the Duckabush River Valley, more than 3,250 acres of permanently protected land create a corridor of wildlife habitat. This greenbelt corridor hosts a wide variety of species – fish, insects, amphibians, mammals and birds – that have relied on this land for thousands of years. In addition to providing important spawning and rearing habitat for […]
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Thanks to Community Support, We’re Closing in on Our Fundraising Goal! With less than six weeks left in our fundraising campaign, we’re excited to report that we’ve secured more than 85 percent of the funding necessary to purchase a rare, large undeveloped property on Marrowstone Island. If we’re successful, the proposed 51-acre preserve (located next […]
Scotty Scott’s lifelong passion for nature fueled a 40-year career as a science teacher. Now she’s inspiring hundreds of students by volunteering with Jefferson Land Trust’s local school partnerships. “We need to think as brothers and sisters to all life and honor what nature gives us.” Scotty helps with everything from designing lesson plans to […]
“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.”
