SAILOR'S DELIGHT – EVENING FERRY SCENE OFF LOPEZ ISLAND | STEVE JUNG
August 2019
Postcard from the Islands
Help us protect the islands you love!
NEWS FROM SJPT
NOTE FROM KATHLEEN:
A Bluebird Season to Celebrate
SJPT Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley reports:

As the 2019 bluebird season draws to a close, I'd like to share this year's successes:

  • We banded 86 young this year, making 2019 one of our most successful breeding seasons yet. ...
MAP OF EXPANDED BEAVERTON PRESERVE
NEW CAMPAIGN KICKOFF
On August 14, at our booth at the county fair, we unveiled the public launch of a fundraising campaign to ensure permanent protection of a newly expanded nature preserve in Beaverton Valley, on the outskirts of Friday Harbor. ...
CAMPERS AT THE ELLIS PRESERVE
NOR'WEST CONNECTION
Earlier this month, a group of eight high-school-age campers and three counselors from Camp Nor’wester (on Johns Island) came to Shaw Island and stayed at SJPT’s Ellis Family Preserve for a two-night community-service outing. ...
PRESERVATION TRUST HQ IN FRIDAY HARBOR
WE'RE HIRING
We're looking for a Database Specialist to work in our Friday Harbor office for about 20 hours per week, with increased hours in November, December and January. This is an hourly (non-exempt) seasonal position through January 2020.
SCENE FROM 2013 SUMMER SOCIAL | JANE FOX
A BLAST OF THE PAST
When San Juan Island resident Lynn Weber/Roochvarg, a retired researcher, offered to write a history of the Preservation Trust, we were delighted. Lynn's essay is now complete and published online. If you're a history buff . . .
PARTNERS IN PERPETUITY
Name: Martha Farish

Gann Society Member since: 2012

Favorite Island Place: In the springtime near Mountain Lake you will find a quarter-acre wet spot covered in large, primitive, bright cadmium yellow skunk cabbages. Hundreds of them reclaim once again a part of the earth they have “owned” for a very long time, maybe even since the time of bison!

Why I want my financial treasure to “rest” here, with SJPT: Orcas and these islands have been a wellspring for five generations of my family. I feel a deep desire to do my part to take special care of this breathtakingly beautiful place.
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The Gann Society is a group of individuals who have notified us that they have provided for the San Juan Preservation Trust in their estate plans.

Protect these islands for generations to come with a bequest to SJPT. 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept. 7 Zylstra Lake Open House
Walk the preserve, learn the latest updates, and share your vision.

10:00am–4:00pm
Sept. 21 Ellis Open Preserve Day
Third and final day this summer when the amazing Ellis preserve will be open.

Noon–4:00pm
Sept. 21 Sunset Walk on Turtleback
Bring the family for some almost-equinox fun on Turtleback Mountain.

5:00pm–7:45pm
Sept. 8 Salish Seeds Plant Sale - San Juan
Nursery sale on San Juan Island featuring native plants produced by the Salish Seeds Project.

Noon–2:00pm
Sept. 21 Salish Seeds Plant Sale - Lopez
Lopez Island pop-up sale featuring native plants produced by the Salish Seeds Project.

Noon–2:00pm
Sept. 28 Salish Seeds Plant Sale - Orcas
Orcas Island pop-up sale featuring native plants produced by the Salish Seeds Project.

Noon–2:00pm
PHOTO OF THE MONTH
STAFF PHOTO
This may look like the actual view of Beaverton marsh as seen from the fenced viewing area at the "turnout" (see map here ) on Beaverton Valley Road (on San Juan Island). Actually, it's our depiction of that scene as we re-created it in our booth at the San Juan County Fair.


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