||| FROM SHAUN HUBBARD and HAROLD KAWAGUCHI |||


When we vote to renew our San Juan County Conservation Land Bank, everyone wins.

Farmers win when the Land Bank offers affordable leases on public land.

Forests win when they are managed by the Land Bank and allowed to do their job of cleaning our air and water.

Future homeowners win because the Land Bank’s existence insures the Affordable Housing Real Estate Excise Tax.

Orcas win when the Land Bank protects healthy shorelines where the orca’s food chain begins.

Neighbors win when the Land Bank’s preserves are made firesafe.

Wildlife and wildflowers win because the Land Bank manages and safeguards their rare and finite habitat.

Islanders win when the Land Bank protects the natural beauty we love to live in.

Vote Yes to Renew Our Land Bank – it makes life better for all of us.


 

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