Orcas Socrates Café @ Orcas Senior Center by Zoom: Sunday, December 12, 4-6pm
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for CONSERVATION LAND BANK and PRESERVATION TRUST |||
The Conservation Land Bank and the Preservation Trust recently completed a forest assessment at Turtleback and Turtlehead Preserves. The resulting report (click here to view report) outlines a variety of forest management actions aimed at increasing forest health, habitat value and climate change resiliency.
Staff are incorporating the recommended actions into the forthcoming update to the Turtleback Mountain Stewardship and Management Plan. In anticipation of a future that includes more active forest stewardship, the Land Bank recently applied for and received a $30,000 grant from the Washington Department of Natural Resources to implement small-scale forest management demonstration projects.
To learn more about the Land Bank’s forest health and resiliency objectives and the planned demonstration projects, please join Land Bank, SJI Conservation District and Rain Shadow Consulting staff at 5:30pm on Wednesday, December 15, for a 30-minute Zoom presentation followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. The presentation and Q&A will be recorded and posted to the Land Bank website for later viewing.
Register here for the meeting: https://bit.ly/3dxzuu5. For more information or questions, contact Tanja Williamson, Outreach/Volunteer Coordinator, tanjaw@sjclandbank.org. Public meeting attendees need a free registered Zoom account and the Zoom application on their device. Create a Free Zoom account here: https://zoom.us/freesignup/ Download the Zoom application here: https://zoom.us/download
About the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank
The San Juan County Conservation Land Bank is a local land conservation program, created by voters in 1990, and funded by a 1% real estate excise tax paid by purchasers of property in San Juan County. Through conservation easements or outright purchases, the Conservation Land Bank protects special places in the Islands including coastlines, farmland, forests and wetlands.
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Lin: I would very much like to read the report, but the link in the article does not appear to be ‘live’… Is the something that can be fixed? Thanks!
“The resulting report (click here to view report) outlines a variety of forest management actions aimed at increasing forest health, habitat value and climate change resiliency. “
Yep, Ken. It has been fixed. My apologies. I need at least one day off!