Thank you to all who joined us on the morning of Thursday, March 14 for virtual Conservation Breakfast 2024! It was our biggest Breakfast yet, with more than 350 community members tuning in on Zoom for this year’s program, “The Olympic Cougar Project: Conservation in a Human-Dominated Landscape,” featuring keynote speakers biologist Dr. Mark Elbroch […]
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Our 2024 virtual Conservation Breakfast is just around the corner! On Thursday, March 14, from 9:00 to 10:30 am, please join us for “The Olympic Cougar Project: Conservation in a Human-Dominated Landscape,” featuring renowned biologist Dr. Mark Elbroch and his team members Caitlin Kupar and Andy Stratton from Panthera, a nonprofit organization devoted to the […]
“What we can learn from cougars is that we can live together. We need to be respectful of the fact that they play a pivotal role in the landscape. Their health and wellbeing is tied to the health and wellbeing of the entire ecosystem.” – Sarah Spaeth The Land Trust is excited to welcome renowned […]
Jefferson Land Trust is now seeking volunteers to assist with an innovative bird monitoring study we recently launched on several of our nature preserves. Assessing the presence of certain indicator bird species will help us determine whether our forest management activities are succeeding in creating the habitat conditions that birds and other local wildlife need […]
Over the summer, an enthusiastic group of volunteers from our community helped the Land Trust with an important project: installing and monitoring wildlife cameras at our Snow Creek Forest Preserve, Valley View Forest, Chai-yahk-wh Preserve, the Quimper Wildlife Corridor, and Duckabush Riparian Forest Preserve. “Seeing which types of animals are using our preserves helps us […]
Over the last few months, residents of Jefferson County have been excited by rumors, photos, and glimpses of a rare sight: a herd of four young bull elk moving across the region. They’ve been spotted from Chimacum to Marrowstone Island, where Gary Rowe caught some very cool photographs (including the one above) of the elk […]
In addition to working with us on a variety of videos, John Gussman of DoubleClick Productions often generously shares his photos, like the one above that features a fledgling Bald Eagle and a fledgling hummingbird. John said that according to some people who regularly monitor the nest location, both birds had […]
Jayne Marek wrote “River Triptych,” a poem in three connected parts, shortly after participating in the Land Trust’s Tidelands to Timberline natural history course in 2016. She and her husband Joe moved to Port Townsend in mid-2015. According to Jayne […]
Sarah Spaeth, Director of Conservation and Strategic Partnerships for the Land Trust has taken her love of wildlife tracking to the next level. In October, she became one of five women and less than 50 North Americans to be recognized as a certified Track and Sign Specialist. To do so, Sarah underwent a rigorous evaluation […]
Jefferson Land Trust has been working on conservation projects along the Dosewallips and Duckabush Rivers since the mid-90s. In 1994, long-time locals, Vern and Ida Bailey donated a conservation easement on their 187-acre property on the Dosewallips River, our first project in the area. That act alone protected a significant portion of beautiful open space […]
