From the shoreline to the timberlands, we are protecting some of Jefferson County’s most fertile farmland, richest spawning grounds and busiest wildlife corridors. Come with us on a journey up the watershed!
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9:00 AM
Join Tim Lawson, Chair of the Chimacum Ridge Board of Managers, on a deep dive walking tour to explore the natural history, geology, and future of 918-acre Chimacum Ridge Community Forest. (Multiple dates available.) Learn more about the tours here. Click on the RESERVE NOW button to see tour dates and register for one of […]
10:00 AM Public Program
Saturday, April 25 • 10:00 am – 11:30 am The Land-Based Learning Excursions program invites our community to connect more deeply with the natural world through guided exploration on locally protected lands. Designed for families, each session highlights a key aspect of our region’s natural history, engaging participants in hands-on activities that build knowledge, curiosity, […]
12:00 PM Public Program
Saturday, April 25 • 12:00 – 1:30 pm The Land-Based Learning Excursions program invites our community to connect more deeply with the natural world through guided exploration on locally protected lands. Each session highlights a key aspect of our region’s natural history, engaging participants in hands-on activities that build knowledge, curiosity, and a lasting relationship […]
10:00 AM Work Party
Tuesday, April 28 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Join us to celebrate the sun (perhaps)! This week we’ll be carefully working to maintain some ecologically unique “balds” (grassy areas on sun-exposed rock substrate, often up above a river or other large waterway’s slope) by cutting back encroaching Douglas fir trees that are trying to […]
8:30 AM
Wednesday, April 29 • 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Join Jefferson Land Trust’s Natural History Society on Wednesday, April 29, on a hike at Ludlow Creek. This will be a loop hike of approximately 2.5 miles, with some steep sections where you may want hiking poles for safety. The creekside experience includes cascades of Ludlow […]
Tuesday, May 12 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm • Lower Donovan Creek Preserve Dear Donovan, Over the years you have shared so much – expansive views, an ever-changing creek, young plantings, and a true assortment of noxious weeds! Thanks to the work of many over the years the Preserve is more and more often […]
Tuesday, June 23 • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • Snow Creek Uncas Preserve Fear not, we have more jewelweed to share! We’ll continue pulling up this shade-loving, damp-loving overly competitive plant. This week brings us to the restoration area of our Snow Creek Uncas Preserve, and an otherwise healthy riparian forest. Access involves some […]
Tuesday, July 14 • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • Snow Creek Estuary Preserve Snow Creek Estuary Preserve has undergone extensive habitat restoration in partnership with the North Olympic Salmon Coalition and the Jefferson County Conservation District. And with the habitat recovery, our friendly habitat engineers the beaver have moved back in! While those buggers […]
Tuesday, August 25 • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm • Quimper West Preserve • Over the past several years community members have gathered at this 80-acre preserve along North Jacob Miller Road to lead a concerted attack against invasive holly. Since then, our dedicated preserve stewards have been working hard at identifying new patches, and […]
Something new is coming this summer! Jefferson Land Trust is launching its first-ever nature camp for children ages 4-11 (kindergarten through 5th grade), based at Sunfield Biodynamic Farm and Waldorf School (a Land Trust protected property) in Port Hadlock. Eight weeklong sessions run from July through August. Each session is designed to send kids outside […]
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Over the past year, many supporters have asked about the status of Jefferson Land Trust’s conservation burial initiative and we’re pleased to share that our commitment to bringing this innovative conservation burial option to Jefferson County has remained steady. The board of Olympic Wildland Burial Grounds LLC (a subsidiary of the Land Trust), Land Trust […]
When talking with the community about our approach to caring for the land, there’s one area in particular that stimulates a great deal of discussion and debate: forest management. For some, the idea of cutting down trees on a nature preserve — for any reason — feels out of step with the goals of conservation. […]
“Tamanowas Rock-it’s the most sacred place… It’s the home of our ancestors. Our spirits are there.”
“To think that a place as beautiful as this will be here, undisturbed, and get to grow into an old forest again…That’s a big, big, big idea.”
“My husband’s family has been farming in Washington for five generations, and the working lands efforts of Jefferson Land Trust give us hope that our boys and other youth of this county will indeed have farmland to work if they so choose.”
“The Olympic Peninsula is the crown jewel among America’s natural wonders and deserves careful attention to preserve what wildness is still here. Because Jefferson Land Trust is a leader in the conservation of a large part of the Olympic Peninsula, I have looked to the Land Trust for opportunities to help in the preservation of this wonderful environment.”
