See Our October 2018 e-News
In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: Planning our Future, Fred Whitridge (1922 - 2018), Welcome, Bailey!, Introducing the Land Trust Alliance and More!
See our August 2018 e-News
View from the top of Guemes Mountain | Jeff Brennan In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: SJPT and [...]
Island Marble Butterfly Field Season Ends
Kathleen Foley tends an island marble butterfly habitat expansion plot on Frazer Homestead Preserve The rare island marble butterfly [...]
A Super Summer Social
On July 28, 2018, more than 150 Preservation Trust members, friends, trustees, and staff gathered at the Ellis Family Preserve for [...]
Note from Angela: SJPT and Our Resident Orcas
We all watched, heartbroken, as the orca known as J35 (aka Tahlequah) carried her dead calf around the Salish Sea for [...]
June 2018 Note from Angela
Growing Community Conservation, Part II (This article is adapted from Angela's presentation at SJPT's Annual Meeting on May 5. Part two [...]
Susan McBain and Steve Jung
Susan and Steve trekking in Chile, 2016 Names: Steve Jung and Susan McBain Gann Society members since: 2011 (Charter Members) [...]
Put Your IRA to Work for the Islands
IRA, RMD, QCD, SJPT? Besides alphabet soup, what do these acronyms have in common? Sunset view from Turtleback | Staff [...]
A New Way to Visit Vendovi Island
San Juan Cruises boat at the Vendovi Island dock Vendovi Island is one of the Preservation Trust’s most spectacular [...]
May 2018 Note from Angela
Growing Community Conservation, Part I (This article is adapted from Angela’s presentation at SJPT’s Annual Meeting on May 5. Part one [...]
Gallery of Signs on Vendovi and Turtlehead
In 2013, the San Juan Preservation Trust started working with Sea Reach, an outdoor exhibit design firm based in Sheridan, Oregon, [...]
March 2018 Note from Angela
Breaking for lunch during a cleanup day at the Ellis Family Preserve | Staff photo BUOYED BY OUR SHARED [...]
Amanda Azous’s Story
My parents came to the US as refugees after World War II and raised me in Seattle on Capitol Hill. Nature was [...]
2018 Events & Outings
April 7 Vendovi Wildflower Walk Read More Register SOLD OUT—Wait list only May 5 2018 Annual Meeting Read [...]
Field Note by Susan Vernon: Black Sea Pies
The last day of February I hear the startling wheep, wheep, wheep, wheep of four black oystercatchers as they come screaming down the [...]
The Henrys: Connected!
We are thrilled that, in these first days of 2018, we can declare the successful completion of our $1.95 million Campaign [...]
Ellis Family Donates Record-Breaking Shaw Island Preserve
On the last day of 2017, a closing took place that represented the largest donation—as measured in both acres and appraised [...]
Note from Tim: The Ellis Family’s Peerless Legacy
This quote, chiseled into the tombstone that stands above his final resting place on Shaw Island, tells you that Fred Ellis [...]
Zylstra Lake is a Done Deal!
On December 20, almost two years to the day since the San Juan County Land Bank and the Preservation Trust signed an [...]
End of Season 2017 Update
It’s been a good year for the San Juan Islands Western Bluebird Reintroduction Project! Here some stats and noteworthy events [...]
Ways of Giving: Year-End Reminder
As we launch our annual membership campaign and enter into the year-end giving season, we want to remind our members about two [...]
Saving Kelly’s Point
Our conservation partners at Skagit Land Trust have launched a campaign to acquire and permanently protect Kelly’s Point and Yellow Bluff [...]
License Plate Design Chosen
The votes were tallied in September, and San Juan Island artist Nancy Spaulding’s painting “Evening Passage” won the design contest for [...]
In Search of Forest Fungi
Last month’s “Forest Fungi Foray” outing to Waldron Island attracted an enthusiastic group of Preservation Trust members. All was in place for [...]
We Had a “Rally” Good Time
The Preservation Trust sent five staff members to the Land Trust Alliance Rally, held last month in Denver. Rally is an annual [...]
November 2017 Field Note by Susan Vernon
Arrival of the Swans On November 2, a friend calls to tell me the swans are back. … It is exhilarating to [...]
San Juan Preservation Trust Earns Accreditation Renewal
Awarded Second Five-Year Term as One of Nation’s Top Land Trusts Friday Harbor, Washington – At a time of political turmoil, one [...]
September 2017 Field Note by Susan Vernon
In the San Juans, September is a time of transition for the birds. The change seems subtle at first—recognition that the [...]
Zylstra Lake Update
Legislative Impasse Puts Major Funding Source in Limbo When the state legislature adjourned in July without passing a Capital Construction Budget, [...]
See Our August 2017 e-News
August 2017 E-News Lineup Note from Tim: Off the Map (Westcott Bay) Summer Social Rocks Crow Valley (photo gallery) Tiptop League [...]