By Jan | Published: September 28, 2009 – 8:29 pm
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Whidbey Camano Land Trust’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
Coupeville High School – Performing Arts Center – 501 South Main Street
Saturday, October 3
7:00 – 10:00 pm
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust invites the community to an evening of celebration. Program highlights include a live music concert by the Grammy award-winning duo Tingstad & Rumbel and a keynote address by Attorney General, Rob McKenna. The program also features landscape photographs, recognition of local conservation heroes, and two short films including one produced by Oak Harbor High School students. During intermission, desserts will be offered, including a special “Islands” cake designed by J.W. Desserts.
Admission is $10 per person. Reserve your seat at the Land Trust office or by phone at (360) 222-3310.
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By Rhizome | Published: September 28, 2009 – 8:29 pm
Reserve Your Spot Today!
Whidbey Camano Land Trust’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
Coupeville High School – Performing Arts Center – 501 South Main Street
Saturday, October 3
7:00 – 10:00 pm
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust invites the community to an evening of celebration. Program highlights include a live music concert by the Grammy award-winning duo Tingstad & Rumbel and a keynote address by Attorney General, Rob McKenna. The program also features landscape photographs, recognition of local conservation heroes, and two short films including one produced by Oak Harbor High School students. During intermission, desserts will be offered, including a special “Islands” cake designed by J.W. Desserts.Admission is $10 per person. Reserve your seat at the Land Trust office or by phone at (360) 222-3310.
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By Jan | Published: September 19, 2009 – 10:39 pm
September 27 – October 3 has been officially proclaimed in Washington State as “Whidbey Camano Land Trust Week” by Governor Gregoire. She was joined by the City of Langley, Town of Coupeville and the City of Oak Harbor, each of whom adopted separate proclamations. These proclamations recognize the Land Trust’s important work and its dedication to conserving Whidbey and Camano Islands’ most important natural habitats, scenic vistas, and working farms and forests in partnership with the community.
To celebrate this inaugural week and the Land Trust’s 25th anniversary, the Land Trust invites its members and the community to celebrate. The week opens with tours to many of the Land Trust’s protected properties and ends with an event-filled evening celebration at the Coupeville High School’s Performing Arts Center.
Learn more about how you can participate here:
Land Tours
25th Anniversary Celebration
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By Rhizome | Published: September 19, 2009 – 10:39 pm
September 27 – October 3 has been officially proclaimed in Washington State as “Whidbey Camano Land Trust Week” by Governor Gregoire. She was joined by the City of Langley, Town of Coupeville and the City of Oak Harbor, each of whom adopted separate proclamations. These proclamations recognize the Land Trust’s important work and its dedication to conserving Whidbey and Camano Islands’ most important natural habitats, scenic vistas, and working farms and forests in partnership with the community.
To celebrate this inaugural week
and the Land Trust’s 25th anniversary, the Land Trust invites its members and the community to celebrate. The week opens with tours to many of the Land Trust’s protected properties and ends with an event-filled evening celebration at the Coupeville High School’s Performing Arts Center.Learn more about how you can participate here:
Land Tours25th Anniversary Celebration
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By Jan | Published: September 17, 2009 – 12:52 am
For thousands of years before European settlement, Native Americans harvested the bounty of Puget Sound prairies for food and medicine. They burned the prairies regularly to keep out encroaching shrubs and trees and to encourage proliferation of specific wildflowers and bulbs. After European settlement, the vast majority of prairie lands were converted to farmland and then later to residential and commercial uses. Now, less than 1% of the original prairies on Whidbey Island remain, including a remnant on the Land Trust’s Naas Natural Area Preserve.
Rare prairie species are dependent on periodic fires to control competition and create favorable conditions for seed germination. One of the primary goals of the burn was to remove competing species so that native species can become re-established. The prescribed fire sets the stage for the next step. As part of the Land Trust’s 5-year Stewardship Plan, they made arrangements with five different nurseries to grow more than 40,000 plants (25 different species) that will be planted out this fall. In addition, Land Trust volunteers and staff have been collecting seed which will be sown directly onto the soil in some plots.
This carefully orchestrated prescribed burn at Naas and others that occurred the same day at the AuSable Institute and near Ebey’s Landing, are the first on Whidbey Island in many years. It was the product of an important collaboration between the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, the AuSable Institute, University of Washington, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Wild Mountain Fire and Forestry Inc.
Management activities at the Naas Preserve are funded in part by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
See photo album>
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By Rhizome | Published: September 17, 2009 – 12:52 am
For thousands of years before European settlement, Native Americans harvested the bounty of Puget Sound prairies for food and medicine. They burned the prairies regularly to keep out encroaching shrubs and trees and to encourage proliferation of specific wildflowers and bulbs. After European settlement, the vast majority of prairie lands were converted to farmland and then later to residential and commercial uses. Now, less than 1% of the original prairies on Whidbey Island remain, including a remnant on the Land Trust’s Naas Natural Area Preserve.
Rare prairie species are dependent on periodic fires to control competition and create favorable conditions for seed germination. One of the primary goals of the burn was to remove competing species so that native species can become re-established. The prescribed fire sets the stage for the next step. As part of the Land Trust’s 5-year Stewardship Plan, they made arrangements with five different nurseries to grow more than 40,000 plants (25 different species) that will be planted out this fall. In addition, Land Trust volunteers and staff have been collecting seed which will be sown directly onto the soil in some plots.This carefully orchestrated prescribed burn at Naas and others that occurred the same day at the AuSable Institute and near Ebey’s Landing, are the first on Whidbey Island in many years. It was the product of an important collaboration between the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, The Nature Conservancy, the AuSable Institute, University of Washington, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Wild Mountain Fire and Forestry Inc.Management activities at the Naas Preserve are funded in part by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program and the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
See photo album>
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By Jan | Published: September 11, 2009 – 8:21 pm
Sample some of our preserves over the weekend.
We will be on Camano Island on Saturday, September 26 and invite you to a guided walk to see our protected tidelands at Livingston Bay. The walk includes a special visit to a newly acquired nearshore pocket estuary protected by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy. On Sunday, go green and go one of two bus routes on Whidbey Island where you’ll visit three properties protected by the Land Trust. Tickets for the bus tours are $15 a person and include a snack and drink. See complete schedule and itinerary here>
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By Rhizome | Published: September 11, 2009 – 8:21 pm
Sample some of our preserves over the weekend.
We will be on Camano Island on Saturday, September 26 and invite you to a guided walk to see our protected tidelands at Livingston Bay.
The walk includes a special visit to a newly acquired nearshore pocket estuary protected by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy. On Sunday, go green and go one of two bus routes on Whidbey Island where you’ll visit three properties protected by the Land Trust. Tickets for the bus tours are $15 a person and include a snack and drink.
See complete schedule and itinerary here>
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By Jan | Published: September 4, 2009 – 7:19 pm
Reserve Your Spot Today!
Whidbey Camano Land Trust’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
Coupeville Performing Arts Center – 501 South Main Street
Saturday, October 3
7:00 – 10:00 pm
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust invites the community to an evening of celebration. Program highlights include a live music concert by the Grammy award-winning duo Tingstad & Rumbel and a keynote address by Attorney General, Rob McKenna. The program also features landscape photographs, recognition of local conservation heroes, and two short films including one produced by Oak Harbor High School students. During intermission, desserts will be offered, including a special “Islands” cake designed by J.W. Desserts. Admission is $10 per person. Reserve your seat at the Land Trust office or by phone at (360) 222-3310.
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By Rhizome | Published: September 4, 2009 – 7:19 pm
Reserve Your Spot Today!
Whidbey Camano Land Trust’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
Coupeville Performing Arts Center – 501 South Main Street
Saturday, October 3
7:00 – 10:00 pm
The Whidbey Camano Land Trust invites the community to an evening of celebration. Program highlights include a live music concert by the Grammy award-winning duo Tingstad & Rumbel and a keynote address by Attorney General, Rob McKenna. The program also features landscape photographs, recognition of local conservation heroes, and two short films including one produced by Oak Harbor High School students. During intermission, desserts will be offered, including a special “Islands” cake designed by J.W. Desserts. Admission is $10 per person. Reserve your seat at the Land Trust office or by phone at (360) 222-3310.
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