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The San Juan Preservation Trust works with our local communities and people like you to permanently conserve and care for special places throughout the San Juan Islands.
Last week was our traditional springtime volunteer outing at the Henry Island Preserve, which we try to coincide with Earth Day as closely as possible.
It's always a great time to be out there, with wildflowers beginning to show off their prime bloom, trailside vegetation leafing out, and the sun shining over it all with a side of a gentle breeze.
And what a day it was! SJPT staff and a wonderful group of volunteers tidied up the trails, scoured the beaches for washed up litter, and checked on the overall state of the preserve. It was a tremendous way to spend another day on Earth!
Thank you to all that participated and rest assured that there will be more opportunities coming up to join us out at lovely places like this.
We invite you to check out our Upcoming Events page on our website (sjpt.org/calendar) to see what events might interest you and to register for them.
We look forward to seeing you out there with us sometime soon 🙂
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Two weeks from today is the first open house of the year for the Tharald Homestead at the Marilyn and Fred Ellis Preserve on Shaw Island!
The homestead of early settler Theodore Tharald is at the center of the Preservation Trust’s Ellis Preserve on Shaw Island. Built in 1883, the original log house is on the National Historic Register and is one of two intact homesteads left in the islands.
In addition to its rich natural environment, the Ellis Preserve encompasses a many-layered record of our region’s cultural history. The landscape contains evidence of Indigenous culture from long before European exploration and westward expansion, through the homestead and agricultural era, to the period of resource extraction and the emergence of tourism and development.
The Tharald Homestead provides a vantage point for considering those who came before us and their relationship to place. The homestead tour is an opportunity to learn more about the legacy we have inherited and ponder the one we will leave behind.
In addition to being able to schedule private guided tours, the following homestead tours are all free and are open to anybody without any prior registration, all running from 1:00pm to 2:30 on the 2024 dates below:
May 8, June 8, July 7, August 3, September 4
We hope to see you out there!
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Everyday is Earth Day but it's good to have a day where we celebrate our planet even more!
Here's a beautiful video from a preserve on San Juan Island that our stewardship staff took earlier this month.
What a scene. What a place. What an ecosystem.
The shooting star wildflowers look amazing with the mighty oak tree in the background.
Happy Earth Day!
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#sanjuanpreservationtrust
#SJI
#sanjuanislands
#salishsea
#conservation
#landpreservation
#getoutside
#conserve
#connect
#care
#Spring
#Stewardship
#wildflowers
#reels
#EarthDay
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