![Blue skies hover over a calm inlet beach, dotted by tall trees](https://sjclandbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Watmough_Landscape_ShorelineCloseUp-e1655151036286-300x140.jpg)
Watmough Addition
If your Land Bank was a rock band, its 2022 conservation efforts would be an album of the year nominee, the cover of which would feature three incredible acquisitions – Watmough Addition (Lopez Island), North Shore Property (Orcas Island) and Cady Mountain Addition (San Juan Island) – protecting a total of 109 acres, including almost 3,000 feet of shoreline.
![Big boulder along sandyh shoreline at lowtide](https://sjclandbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LowTideShorelineView-e1656010031417-300x185.jpg)
North Shore Property
And as with any great album, the “behind the scenes” production crew played a big part in shaping the year’s conservation efforts. Highlights include local partner, the San Juan Preservation Trust, who committed to nearly $3.7M for purchase of conservation easements; $1.5M in grant funding for salmon recovery and aquatic lands enhancement at Watmough; over 70 community events – work parties, guided preserve tours, community conversation series – and over 800 volunteer hours logged on county preserves, 625 of which went towards public trail construction!
![Group of people at the trailhead](https://sjclandbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/YCC_GroupPic_NewTrail_Aug2022-1-scaled-e1663613303260-225x300.jpeg)
San Juan Islands Youth Conservation Corps at Dragonfly Trailhead, Beaverton Marsh Preserve
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