Tuesday, July 14 • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • Snow Creek Estuary Preserve Snow Creek Estuary Preserve has undergone extensive habitat restoration in partnership with the North Olympic Salmon Coalition and the Jefferson County Conservation District. And with the habitat recovery, our friendly habitat engineers the beaver have moved back in! While those buggers […]
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Tuesday, April 28 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Join us to celebrate the sun (perhaps)! This week we’ll be carefully working to maintain some ecologically unique “balds” (grassy areas on sun-exposed rock substrate, often up above a river or other large waterway’s slope) by cutting back encroaching Douglas fir trees that are trying to […]
Tuesday, September 22 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm • Brinnon Area • A specialty team will visit this mixed age, mixed species forest to carefully select trees for future standing snag creation at a preserve in the Brinnon area. Standing snags are trees which are dead, but still standing, providing birds a place to […]
Tuesday, May 12 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm • Lower Donovan Creek Preserve Dear Donovan, Over the years you have shared so much – expansive views, an ever-changing creek, young plantings, and a true assortment of noxious weeds! Thanks to the work of many over the years the Preserve is more and more often […]
Tuesday, August 25 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm • Quimper West Preserve • Over the past several years community members have gathered at this 80-acre preserve along North Jacob Miller Road to lead a concerted attack against invasive holly. Since then, our dedicated preserve stewards have been working hard at identifying new patches, and […]
Tuesday, June 23 • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • Snow Creek Uncas Preserve Fear not, we have more jewelweed to share! We’ll continue pulling up this shade-loving, damp-loving overly competitive plant. This week brings us to the restoration area of our Snow Creek Uncas Preserve, and an otherwise healthy riparian forest. Access involves some […]