This August, during National “Make-A-Will” Month, you can use a handy online tool to create your will in roughly 20 minutes and then spend the rest of the year enjoying the knowledge that you’ve prepared for the future. If you’ve been meaning to write a will but don’t know where to start, the Land Trust […]
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The regular co-ed adult softball league season has ended, and we’re very pleased to share that the Jefferson Land Trust Summer Chums (made up of staff members, their partners and friends, and Land Trust volunteers) lived up to their name by earning the singular Sportsmanship Award! The seven teams in the league all voted to […]
Jefferson Land Trust is celebrating the permanent protection of a 96.87-acre forested property near Tarboo Bay, adjacent to the Dabob Bay Natural Area in Quilcene! The property owners, Neal and Ann Koblitz, worked with the Land Trust and with the Seattle-based nonprofit Northwest Natural Resource Group (NNRG) to place a comprehensive conservation easement on this […]
School’s out, and Jefferson Land Trust is wrapping up our 13th year of great youth education programming! Our highly valued, place-based education programs are developed in collaboration with local teachers to support classroom curriculums, to align with state standards, and to build on each other year after year, carrying students from elementary school through senior […]
Earlier this month, Jefferson Land Trust’s beloved Tidelands to Timberline natural history course wrapped up another great season! The eight-week course, which runs annually from April through June, offers 18 committed participants the chance to become intimately familiar with the natural history and ecosystems of the northeast Olympic Peninsula, absorb the knowledge and passion of […]
Move over, Mariners! Jefferson Land Trust staff members, along with their assorted partners and friends, plus a few Land Trust volunteers, are having a ball this summer on the Summer Chums softball team! The Chums are one of seven teams in Jefferson County Parks and Recreation’s 2025 co-ed adult softball league. Starting in April, the […]
Jefferson Land Trust purchased 853-acre Chimacum Ridge Forest in 2024. Once it’s combined with adjacent Valley View Forest, Chimacum Ridge Community Forest will total 918 acres of working forest, wetlands, and wildlife habitat. The community forest will be a shared living resource, bringing economic, ecological, and social benefits to our community — forever. Save the […]
On April 25, President Trump signed an executive order terminating active AmeriCorps grants and reducing the independent agency’s workforce by 85 percent. The order effectively ends this 30-year-old program, which annually provides opportunities to tens of thousands of Americans to meaningfully serve their communities across a range of critical sectors and services while gaining valuable […]
During the week of May 5-10, Jefferson Land Trust’s own Erik Kingfisher headed to Washington DC for “Land Trust Advocacy Days.” Organized by the Land Trust Alliance, the trip gave land trusts from across the nation the opportunity to advocate for the value of our work and the importance of continued funding directly with our […]
In times like these, the strongest conservation solutions are locally driven and forward looking. And there’s a way you can make an ongoing impact too: by joining us as an Evergreen Steward recurring donor today! Evergreen Stewards are local community members just like you who commit to making a monthly or recurring gift to the […]
