Together for Salmon
Kayakers traveling by the North Shore Preserve on Orcas Island | Staff archive 50 Miles of Hope: Ensuring a Future [...]
Membership Matters
SJPT stewardship staff working alongside the Youth Conservation Corps on Lopez Island | Staff archive How Your Support Protects [...]
Goodbye Electric Bills, Hello Sunshine Credits
New solar panel install at Red Mill Farm Preserve on San Juan Island. The San Juan Preservation Trust Goes Solar! [...]
From Aviary to Oak: Translocating Western Bluebirds
Above: Video highlighting SJPT's recent Western Bluebird translocation on San Juan Island In early June, Preservation Trust stewardship [...]
Western Bluebird Record Count: 2025 Mid-Season Update
A Western Bluebird | Staff Archive It has been a thrilling week for the Preservation Trust and our beloved Western [...]
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 [...]
Volunteers Galore: A 2024 Recap of Community Conservation
SJPT's first-ever volunteer work party at the Reef Island Preserve | Jeff Brennan As the saying goes, “many hands make light [...]
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 [...]
Three Partners Celebrate Youth Stewardship
Youth Conservation Corps participants showcase project overviews with open house visitors | Staff archive The Preservation Trust and the [...]
Members Make a Difference
SJPT stewardship staff and volunteers tending to a riparian restoration area at JB Farm Preserve on Orcas Island | Staff [...]
2024 Western Bluebird Midseason Update
A Western Bluebird in flight | Kathy Finholm The 2024 bluebird season—the eighteenth year of the San Juan Preservation Trust’s [...]
Meet SJPT’s 2024 Summer Intern!
We are pleased to introduce you to Liz Szafranski, the San Juan Preservation Trust's 2024 Fred E. Ellis summer intern! Liz [...]
Honoring Three Bluebird Project “Angels”
If our Western Bluebird Project had a motto, it might be adapted from a quotation from the contemporary Turkish novelist and [...]
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 [...]
Kristin Tolle: 2022-23 Volunteer of the Year
Meet Kristin Tolle, the Preservation Trust's 2022-23 Volunteer of the Year.
“Most Wanted” Noxious Weeds
Six of San Juan County's Most Notorious Plant Invaders Notes on weeds from Jason Ontjes Program Coordinator, San Juan County Noxious [...]
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 [...]
Lichen: Life Working Together
By Rob Roy McGregor, SJPT Land Steward Last winter, I became a bit obsessed with lichens, and like a mad numerologist [...]
A Golden Opportunity
Golden paintbrush, a showy yellow wildflower, once thrived throughout coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest, including here in the San Juan [...]
See Garry Oak “Director’s Cut”
Watch the full "director's cut" version of our documentary video, "What's So Great About Garry Oaks?"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earth Month Pledge for Earth Day’s 50th!
One of the best backyard stewards we know, Thom Pence The San Juan Preservation Trust planned to go big in celebrating [...]
Participate in Orca Recovery Day on October 19th!
Spyhopping Southern Resident Orca | Steve Smith The Southern Resident Killer Whales that call Puget Sound home are critically endangered. By [...]