From the Amazon to Our Shores: A Vendovi Island Migration Story
View of the North Cove from the Homestead Property on Vendovi Island | Staff archive Every April on Vendovi [...]
That’s a Wrap! North Shore Conservation Easement Closed
Left to right: SJPT Executive Director Angela Anderson, SJPT Director of Special Projects Kathleen Lewis, Conservation Land Bank Director Lincoln Bormann [...]
Be Our Valentine?
Members of the Preservation Trust have shown their love for the San Juans by helping to ensure a bright [...]
See Our 2024 Year in Review
See the online version of our 2024 Winter / Year in Review Dispatch
Garry Oak Restoration
To close out 2024, the Preservation Trust's stewardship department teamed up with long-time SJPT volunteer and retired forester [...]
Restoring Crow Valley Creek
As Stewardship Manager with the San Juan Preservation Trust, Meghan Howard leads SJPT's new riparian restoration projects throughout the islands [...]
Better Together: Renew Our Land Bank!
Preservation Trust and Conservation Land Bank staff visiting Beaverton Marsh Preserve, San Juan Island | Staff archive As the election quickly [...]
Busy as Beavers at Crow Valley Creek
The San Juan Preservation Trust and Conservation District’s Islands Conservation Corps (ICC) were hard at work last month to create [...]
Trail Updates on the South Side of Turtleback
View from the new trail on the south side of Turtleback Mountain | Staff Archive The Turtleback Mountain Preserve has been [...]
Volunteer Spotlight: Peter Zangrillo
Volunteer Peter Zangrillo and Land Steward Meghan Howard at Northeast Shore Preserve, Orcas Island | Staff archive The San Juan [...]
Island Marble Butterflies Spotted at Frazer Preserve
Adult Island Marble Butterfly on a field mustard plant, May 2023 | Marianne Tynan Late in May, Kathleen [...]
Phelps Preserve Hosts County’s First AgWeatherNet Station
The Weather Monitoring Station at the Phelps Preserve on San Juan Island | Staff Archive For the first time, real-time [...]
Intertidal Discoveries at Ellis Preserve
Intertidal exploration pubic field event at the Marilyn and Fred Ellis Preserve
New (To Us) Preserve
New SJPT preserve: Ihiya Biological Preserve on San Juan Island, acquired in December 2021.
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 [...]
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 [...]
School Partnerships
This past year, we've made some of our preserves available as “learning landscapes” through partnerships with schools. We recognize the benefits [...]
It’s Amphibian Season!
With Spring comes another a joyful amphibian season in the islands. Just last week, SJPT Land Steward Rob Roy McGregor spotted [...]
Kudos to Skip
Ruthie Dougherty, Ellis Preserve Curator, writes: Two years ago, faced with some unusual projects at the Marilyn and Fred Ellis Preserve [...]
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 [...]
Zylstra Lake Preserve Opens for Public Access
The "year-round" portion of the trail (turquoise line) opens this fall. September 21, 2020 — The timing couldn’t be more perfect: This [...]
If You Build It …
In May we mounted Purple Martin nest boxes built by volunteer Joshua Johns on the dock house at the Marilyn and [...]
From Eyesore to Oasis
Our 2020 summer interns transformed a rotting stump into a pollinator garden Summer interns Georgia Drost and Emma Jacobs made the [...]
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 [...]
Summer Comes to the Ellis Preserve
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee…” –Emily Dickinson At the Marilyn and Fred [...]
Vendovi Island Re-Opening
We are pleased to announce the re-opening of Vendovi Island Preserve as of May 8, 2020, subject to Washington State guidelines and restrictions.
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 [...]
Protecting Point Lawrence
This map shows conservation lands on Orcas Island's Point Lawrence We were pleased in November 2019 when Washington State Parks and [...]
Help for Hemlocks?
For more than 30 years, a tiny sap-sucking insect has been killing untold millions of hemlock trees in the eastern United [...]
Ellis Family Preserve 2019 Open Preserve Days
July scenery at the Ellis Family Preserve | Staff archive If you'd like to visit the Ellis Family Preserve (on Shaw [...]