Volunteer Spotlight: Peter Zangrillo
Volunteer Peter Zangrillo and Land Steward Meghan Howard at Northeast Shore Preserve, Orcas Island | Staff archive The San Juan [...]
Congrats to Our 2023 Climate Leadership Scholarship Winners
Two Orcas High School grads, Justin Krisch-Derr and Roan Ontjes-DeGroot, won our 2023 Climate Leadership Scholarships.
Kristin Tolle: 2022-23 Volunteer of the Year
Meet Kristin Tolle, the Preservation Trust's 2022-23 Volunteer of the Year.
Congrats to Our 2022 Climate Leadership Scholarship Winners!
Isara Greacen Luke Fincher The San Juan Preservation Trust is pleased to announce this [...]
New Fence = Cleaner Water
For years, we’ve been planning to build a fence on Red Mill Farm Preserve that keeps grazing cattle out of False [...]
All Tucked In
More than a thousand native plants are all tucked in for the season—and just in the nick of time! Volunteers helped [...]
A Trail Runs To It
Earlier this year, the Preservation Trust acquired a 42-acre property, now known as the Keel Preserve, on the east side of [...]
Golden Nest Box Award
Brian Clark and Rachel Merz | Staff archive It’s a Preservation Trust tradition to give a Golden Nest Box [...]
A Booster for Salmon Recovery
We received a nice shot in the arm in August that had nothing to do with COVID. Rather, it was a [...]
School Partnerships
This past year, we've made some of our preserves available as “learning landscapes” through partnerships with schools. We recognize the benefits [...]
Capturing Aspects of Nature
Aaron Vliet from Friday Harbor High School chose to work with the Preservation Trust to complete a community project this past [...]
The “Steller” Stars of Whale Rocks
Dr. Frances Robertson, Coordinator of the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee (MRC), takes a boat trip to the swift waters [...]
This Summer’s Internship is Different
Each year in January, we open the search for candidates for our Fred E. Ellis Summer Internship program. Little did we [...]
Support Your Island Growers
Another troubling outcome of this pandemic is that local farmers aren't able to sell their produce to restaurants or hotels. With [...]
Pandemics and Preservation
Dr. Drew Harvell with subjects of her 2016 book, Oceans of Glass | Jesse Winter “In Wildness is the preservation of [...]
Preserving Our Night Sky
Credit: David Lorens (University of Wisconsin-Madison) overlaid on Google Earth At the mention of land preservation, one's mind often fixates on [...]
A Swan’s Sounding Sojourn
If you sleep with your windows open, you may have noticed the morning songs of passerines (songbirds) gradually diminishing, until one [...]
Accolade for Angela
On October 11, Andrew Bowman, president and CEO of the Land Trust Alliance, invited SJPT Executive Director Angela Anderson to join [...]
Welcome, Sierra!
We're very happy to welcome Sierra O'Connell to the Preservation Trust staff as our Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator. Sierra joined us [...]
Preserving a Peaceful Hilltop
Kip and Stanley Greenthal at their home on Pavey Hill Rain showers played tag with sunshine one morning in early June, [...]
Founder Emeritus: Tom Bayley
Tom Bayley has been a steady friend and staunch advocate of the San Juan Preservation Trust from the very beginning. He [...]
Our 2018-19 Volunteer of the Year: Dan Carper
Margie and Dan Carper supporting SJPT's mission As the striking couple took their seats in the back of the room at [...]
Community Conservation on Orcas
Mount Woolard Marsh | Photo: Steve Alboucq In October, we welcomed the donation of 47 acres of mixed forest and wetland [...]
Night at Red Mill Farm
SJPT Land Steward Rob Roy McGregor took these photos on a recent night at Red Mill Farm Preserve on San Juan [...]
Capturing Fall Photos on Vendovi
A group of photo enthusiasts boated to Vendovi Island on October 20 to capture images of autumn splendor. They found plenty, [...]
Fred Whitridge (1922–2018)
Fred Whitridge with weed wrench and trophy pile of eradicated scotch broom Fred Whitridge, a philanthropic fixture on Orcas [...]
Welcome, Bailey!
We're happy to announce that Bailey J. Quishenberry joined the Preservation Trust staff on September 17 as our new Development/Admin Specialist. [...]
Introducing the Land Trust Alliance
We have invited the Land Trust Alliance to contribute two articles to this issue of our E-newsletter: One Alliance, Many Communities [...]
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 [...]
A Tribute to Kurt Thorson
While we all rely heavily on words to tell our stories, there is no substitute for a good photograph. When it [...]