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 [...]
Growing Community Conservation, Part I (This article is adapted from Angela’s presentation at SJPT’s Annual Meeting on May 5. Part one [...]
American Camp Prairie, San Juan Island | Credit: Jeff Brennan In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: Growing Community [...]
These photos of camas, spring gold, chocolate and fawn lilies were taken during a Tiptop League* outing to Vendovi Island on [...]
An Island Marble butterfly feeding on field mustard at American Camp | Photo: Jeff Brennan The rare and wonderful [...]
"Just add butterflies." That's what SJPT Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley said when she saw this gorgeous bloom of Brassica and Blush [...]
From our friends at the San Juan County Land Bank: Western Tanager on Vendovi Island | Kurt Thorson Join [...]
Camas blooming on Vendovi Island | Tom Dempsey In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: Buoyed by Our Shared [...]
In 2013, the San Juan Preservation Trust started working with Sea Reach, an outdoor exhibit design firm based in Sheridan, Oregon, [...]
Breaking for lunch during a cleanup day at the Ellis Family Preserve | Staff photo BUOYED BY OUR SHARED [...]
To recognize and celebrate all that Tim Seifert accomplished during his 15+ years as SJPT’s Executive Director, the board and staff have created [...]
In this month’s issue: Field Note by Susan Vernon: Black Sea Pies Welcome to our New Executive Director 2018 Events & [...]
My parents came to the US as refugees after World War II and raised me in Seattle on Capitol Hill. Nature was [...]
April 7 Vendovi Wildflower Walk Read More Register SOLD OUT—Wait list only May 5 2018 Annual Meeting Read [...]
The last day of February I hear the startling wheep, wheep, wheep, wheep of four black oystercatchers as they come screaming down the [...]
Trumpeter swans on Zylstra Lake | Kurt Thorson SJPT Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley, who coordinates the annual swan count [...]
In this month’s issue: Note from Tim: A Peerless Family Legacy (Ellis Family Preserve) Ellis Family Donates Record-Breaking Shaw Island Preserve [...]
We are thrilled that, in these first days of 2018, we can declare the successful completion of our $1.95 million Campaign [...]
On the last day of 2017, a closing took place that represented the largest donation—as measured in both acres and appraised [...]
This quote, chiseled into the tombstone that stands above his final resting place on Shaw Island, tells you that Fred Ellis [...]
On December 20, almost two years to the day since the San Juan County Land Bank and the Preservation Trust signed an [...]
Angela Anderson to “Come Home” from Hawaii to the Salish Sea The board of trustees of the San Juan Preservation Trust [...]
It’s been a good year for the San Juan Islands Western Bluebird Reintroduction Project! Here some stats and noteworthy events [...]
As we launch our annual membership campaign and enter into the year-end giving season, we want to remind our members about two [...]
Our conservation partners at Skagit Land Trust have launched a campaign to acquire and permanently protect Kelly’s Point and Yellow Bluff [...]
The votes were tallied in September, and San Juan Island artist Nancy Spaulding’s painting “Evening Passage” won the design contest for [...]
Last month’s “Forest Fungi Foray” outing to Waldron Island attracted an enthusiastic group of Preservation Trust members. All was in place for [...]
The Preservation Trust sent five staff members to the Land Trust Alliance Rally, held last month in Denver. Rally is an annual [...]
Arrival of the Swans On November 2, a friend calls to tell me the swans are back. … It is exhilarating to [...]
In this month's issue: Field Note by Susan Vernon (Return of the Swans) License Plate Design Chosen A "Rally" Good Time [...]
See the web version of SJPT’s October 2017 (print) Island Dispatch! Featuring: Annual Campaign Preview Accreditation Renewed Profile: At Home on [...]