July 2024 eNews

On Saturday, July 20, from 1pm–4pm, our annual Summer Social comes to Orcas Island. This is an exciting opportunity to celebrate community-based land conservation work while gaining a sneak peek into the North Shore Preserve before it opens to the public in the fall.

The 58-acre property, with its 1,850-foot stretch of shoreline in one of the islands’ highest-priority regions for salmon recovery, will provide much-needed public shoreline access on Orcas Island. 

Admission is free! Please join us for a fun afternoon of light refreshments, socializing, and learning more about how, together, we're creating a bright future for the San Juan Islands. 

Register by July 18 at 2:00pm. Learn more below! 

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One of the Preservation Trust’s core values is collaboration, which recognizes that successful conservation work relies on active participation of people whose lives and livelihoods are interconnected to the natural areas we conserve. Collaboration also involves being an engaged community member.

With these guiding principles, the 16-member Board of Directors of the San Juan Preservation Trust, representing a cross-section of islands and political perspectives, has unanimously agreed to endorse the renewal of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank. For 34 years, the Conservation Land Bank has protected water, forests, and farmland, making life in the San Juans better for all of us.

A longtime member of the San Juan Preservation Trust staff has retired after eight years of service. Director of Communications and Outreach Craig Canine first joined the Preservation Trust in 2016, following a 25-year career as a magazine journalist.

Craig’s career expertise and many accomplishments proved to be invaluable while on the job with the Preservation Trust and have left an indelible mark on the organization. Please join us in congratulating Craig Canine on his retirement! 

We're thrilled to welcome our new summer intern, Liz Szafranski to the Preservation Trust. Liz joins us during a summer break from Western Washington University, where she studies biology, environmental science, and philosophy. She fell in love with conservation work after completing conservation corps terms in California, Texas, and Washington. Learn more about Liz below! 

Join SJPT staff and author Jane Billinghurst as we explore Shaw Island's Ellis Preserve for a thought-provoking forest walk.

Please join us for a fun afternoon of light refreshments, socializing, and learning more about how, together, we're creating a bright future for the San Juan Islands. Registration ends July 18 at 2:00pm.

Join us for a day of stewardship at the Mud Bay Preserve on Lopez Island, where we will be removing unwanted plants, organizing habitat piles, and picking up beach debris.

Tours of the Tharald Homestead provide an opportunity to learn more about the cultural legacy we have inherited and ponder the one we will leave behind. No registration necessary.

Come to Shaw Island and help us spruce up the forested trail around the Graham Preserve at this summertime volunteer event.

Join SJPT staff and an art instructor special guest as we use the inspiration from Shaw Island's Ellis Preserve to spark creativity for an afternoon of botanical printing.