September 2024 eNews

Your annual membership in the Preservation Trust ensures that even more of the places we all treasure will be conserved and cared for in the year ahead. The ethos of our land conservation work is truly community-based, and we can only do it with you by our side. Read more about some of the ways you are helping to advance our mission through your support:

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This summer, the Youth Conservation Corps joined the San Juan Preservation Trust on Turtleneck Preserve to help remove and reposition anti-deer cages around growing trees. 

While hiking up to the preserve, the students also learned about the delicate ecology of rocky balds throughout Turtleback Mountain, providing a great opportunity to reflect on how their stewardship work is protecting broader ecosystems. 

Connecting with land and each other is one way that we can help inspire the next generation of conservationists.

The close of the 2024 breeding season marks the eighteenth(!) consecutive season of the San Juan Islands Western Bluebird Reintroduction Project. As a result of the collective efforts of SJPT staff and local volunteers, this was another successful chapter in the efforts to support the resurgence of the Western Bluebirds in these islands.

The Preservation Trust’s Lopez Schoolhouse Preserve, alongside the Lopez Island Historical Society’s Port Stanley Schoolhouse Preserve, hosted an open house in August to highlight the stewardship efforts and ecological monitoring projects of the 2024 Lopez Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) group.

Highlights of the open house included youth study site tours, educational art displays, a silent auction, and frozen lemonade served from a bicycle-powered blender. Most importantly, Lopez Island’s 13 YCC participants were able to share their stewardship work and vast knowledge of Lopez Island’s flora and fauna with the community.

Come and join us as we put seeds in the ground that will hopefully provide food and habitat for next year's batch of Island Marble Butterflies.

Come and join us as we put seeds in the ground that will hopefully provide food and habitat for next year's batch of Island Marble Butterflies.

Join us for a day of weeding and general tree care in a young grove of Garry oaks at one of our newer preserves, the Shooting Star Meadow on San Juan Island.

Join SJPT staff at our Orcas Island Outpost for this festive event to help us with some behind-the-scenes tasks that will enrich our correspondence with our members.

Join SJPT staff at our Friday Harbor office for this festive event to help us with some behind-the-scenes tasks that will enrich our correspondence with our members.