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Building Community
Preserves on Lopez and San Juan Islands have been bristling with sounds of swishing branches, gravel hitting shovel, and jovial comradery while our awesome community volunteers (affectionately referred to as Trail [...]
Turtleback Mountain Preserve Temporary Trail Closures
Project Overview In response to repeated road washouts, the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank retained a consultant in 2021 to evaluate the gravel road/trail network on its 1,600-acre Turtleback Mountain [...]
Second Generation of Coho Salmon Found at Coho Preserve!
-- Field update from local Fisheries Biologist Jenny De Groot Spring is a time for optimism and hope. A time for rebirth. I am reminded of this each spring when camas [...]
Director’s Report
Spring is here. The trill of Redwing blackbirds is emerging in the wetlands, tree frogs are hopping along the understory, and a migrating Mountain Bluebird was spotted on Turtleback Mountain Preserve [...]
Spring Native Wildflowers | Staff Favorites and Where to Find Them
LOPEZ ISLAND: Lopez Preserve Steward, Amanda Wedow: White Fawn-lily, Erythronium oregonum I love spotting fawn lilies in the mossy balds along Lopez Hill Preserve. The white flower petals curve up towards [...]
