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The San Juan Preservation Trust works with our local communities and people like you to permanently conserve and care for special places throughout the San Juan Islands.
Sometimes our office is out on the land and sometimes our office is...the office!
But our volunteer events ALWAYS have snacks and our incredible staff ready to share our knowledge and excitement for conservation in the islands.
Aside from our typical volunteer outings at various protected places, we also have opportunities for folks to get involved with our work by helping out with other tasks, such as event planning (in the summer especially), assembling welcome packets for new landowners, completing gratitude correspondence for our donors and supporters (particularly in the fall/winter), and data entry and document sorting, among other office-based activities.
If you are interested in joining our efforts with any of the above opportunities, we would be thrilled to have you along!
These are each great ways to get involved in our mission, meet our staff, and see all the other ways aside from putting our hands in the dirt that we do the important work we do.
Any help we can get is incredibly valuable and much appreciated, and many of the folks that have helped us out with these tasks in the past have gone on to become lifelong friends of the organization.
If you have any interest in working with us on any of the above activities, please comment on this post or contact our Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator, Jack (jack@sjpt.org), and we will follow up with you.
Even if you aren't available now, but would like to be on our list for sometime in the future, please feel free to reach out. We hope to hear from you soon!
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Last week was our traditional springtime volunteer outing at the Henry Island Preserve, which we try to coincide with Earth Day as closely as possible.
It's always a great time to be out there, with wildflowers beginning to show off their prime bloom, trailside vegetation leafing out, and the sun shining over it all with a side of a gentle breeze.
And what a day it was! SJPT staff and a wonderful group of volunteers tidied up the trails, scoured the beaches for washed up litter, and checked on the overall state of the preserve. It was a tremendous way to spend another day on Earth!
Thank you to all that participated and rest assured that there will be more opportunities coming up to join us out at lovely places like this.
We invite you to check out our Upcoming Events page on our website (sjpt.org/calendar) to see what events might interest you and to register for them.
We look forward to seeing you out there with us sometime soon 🙂
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Two weeks from today is the first open house of the year for the Tharald Homestead at the Marilyn and Fred Ellis Preserve on Shaw Island!
The homestead of early settler Theodore Tharald is at the center of the Preservation Trust’s Ellis Preserve on Shaw Island. Built in 1883, the original log house is on the National Historic Register and is one of two intact homesteads left in the islands.
In addition to its rich natural environment, the Ellis Preserve encompasses a many-layered record of our region’s cultural history. The landscape contains evidence of Indigenous culture from long before European exploration and westward expansion, through the homestead and agricultural era, to the period of resource extraction and the emergence of tourism and development.
The Tharald Homestead provides a vantage point for considering those who came before us and their relationship to place. The homestead tour is an opportunity to learn more about the legacy we have inherited and ponder the one we will leave behind.
In addition to being able to schedule private guided tours, the following homestead tours are all free and are open to anybody without any prior registration, all running from 1:00pm to 2:30 on the 2024 dates below:
May 8, June 8, July 7, August 3, September 4
We hope to see you out there!
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