Spring 2012 Newsletter - Bainbridge Island Land Trust

Bainbridge Island
Land Trust
Trustworthy News Volume 23, #1 Spring 2012
Photo © Paul Brians
K eep Gazzam Wild
by Asha Rehnberg
a
R esounding S uccess!
Thanks to a terrific volunteer-led fundraising campaign and tremendous community
support, the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District was recently able to
exercise its option and purchase a 30-acre addition to Gazzam Lake Preserve on April 19.
The Park District paid a total of $800,000 for this
property, with $200,000 coming from community
donations and $600,000 from Park District coffers.
All excess funds donated to BILT for this project
will be passed on to the Park District for restricted
purposes such as trail building on the new property,
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parking lot improvements, noxious weed control at
the Preserve, and similar Gazzam-centric stewardship activities.
For the last year, the Bainbridge Island Land Trust
has been supporting the Park District and the community group “Keep Gazzam Wild” to expand the
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Gazzam Lake Preserve with this 30-acre acquisition.
By purchasing several adjacent properties from five
different owners, this collaborative project is helping to further protect the largest lake on our Island. It
also prevents the development of up to 15 new houses
along the west side of Gazzam Lake, and access roads
to those houses that would bisect the Preserve forever.
Instead, this project further grows the Gazzam wildlife sanctuary for the benefit of all.
Thanks to the over 300 households who donated to
this capital campaign!! Thanks also to the tremendous
hard work of the core Keep Gazzam Wild volunteers,
particularly Walt and Nora McGraw, Marty and Cathy
Smith, Patty and Charlie Bell, Wendy Borroughs,
Stan Rullman, Kathe and Jeff Fraga, Melinda and
Peter Lucas, the Boundys, the Schwagers, Karin and
Vince Larson, Ralph Munro, Reid Hansen, Jackie
Smith, Zephyr Wadkins, and others too numerous to
name. Thanks also to former BILT Executive Director
and current BILT fundraising consultant Karen Molinari who helped coordinate the Keep Gazzam Wild
volunteers into a robust grassroots fundraising team.
This is an important preserve that the Land Trust
originally helped to acquire and protect in 1995,
and which BILT has helped add to more than once
through the years. Originally about 320 acres, the
5-acre Smith property was added in 2000, the 49-acre
Peters Tree Farm property was added in 2004, and the
64-acre Close shoreline property was added in 2005.
The Land Trust holds and annually monitors conservation easements that permanently protect all but the
Close addition (which is instead protected by deed
restrictions). The Gazzam Lake Preserve provides
groundwater recharge to Island aquifers, protects
large numbers of birds and wildlife and is a sanctuary
for humans to enjoy.
This effort was mounted to keep the Gazzam Lake Preserve as the wild, undisturbed sanctuary that animals
and people use and appreciate. Donors to this campaign
have helped ensure that the integrity of this incredible
legacy parkland will be preserved now and for future
generations and that the Park District will have resources available to provide the best possible stewardship.
Board of Directors
Bainbridge Island Land Trust
P.O. Box 10144
221 Winslow Way West, #103
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Tel: 206-842-1216
landtrust@bi-landtrust.org • www.bi-landtrust.org
Bainbridge Island Land Trust is a
non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation
and a member of One Call for All
Credits
President: Tom Backer
Vice President: Tom Goodlin
Treasurer: Barry Fetterman
Secretary: David Harrison
Bill Eckel, Thomas Fenwick
Kathy Haskin, Emily Kehrberg
Maryann Kirkby, Barbara Robert
Carol Sperling, John Thomas
Jim Thrash, John van den Meerendonk
Connie Waddington
Executive Director - Asha Rehnberg
Stewardship Director - Brenda Padgham
Membership/Development Director: Laura O’Mara
Office Manager/Events Coordinator: Susanne Schneider
Administratrive Assistant: Frances Ran
AmeriCorps Intern/Stewardship Coordinator: Jonnie Dunne
Newsletter layout design: Jane Lindley
and Susan Marie Andersson (Bainbridge Island Design Works)
Printed on 30% post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based inks.
BILT logo art: Nate Thomas
Hilltop logo art: Farrah Ferguson (Butter)
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Notes from the Center
by Executive Director Asha Rehnberg
I’m proud to announce that in late March
our Board adopted Bainbridge Island Land
Trust’s first ever comprehensive strategic
Conservation Plan.
A huge thank you to Peter Namtvedt Best, the volunteer planning expert who worked with BILT’s staff
and Board to produce a strong, analytically based
draft plan. And thank you also to all of you, as well as
the many regional agency and nonprofit stakeholders
and community members, who spent time this winter
reading that draft and providing us with thoughtful
comments. Those comments (which appear in full
as an appendix to the adopted Plan) influenced the
Board’s decision about what the Land Trust’s conservation priorities will be for the next 5-10 years.
Why did we go through this exercise? Recognizing
that the supply of natural landscapes on Bainbridge
Island will continue diminishing due to the inevitably
resurgent press of development, and that the financial
resources of BILT will always be constrained, BILT
began developing this Plan to bring more strategic
focus to our conservation efforts. While not a standalone decision document, the Plan is intended to
provide additional direction and guidance for BILT’s
Board and staff to help ensure that we utilize our
limited financial and human resources to achieve the
greatest possible conservation gains for our Island.
Public comments received, weighed with habitat trend
data, past BILT successes, and community needs, led
us to identify two priority ecological systems worthy
of our increased attention and action:
Wildlife Networks: Systems of large ecologically
functioning habitat blocks and connecting wildlife
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corridors that support
sustainable populations
of diverse and abundant
wildlife species and provide opportunities for wildlife to move between large
habitat blocks. These areas contain valuable critical
habitats, including forests, wetlands, streams, and riparian areas. These networks provide some watershed
protection and can provide public access, when compatible with conservation objectives, via well planned
trails and other amenities.
Shorelines: Dynamic habitat systems that contain
highly valuable critical habitats, including tidelands,
estuaries, lagoons, nearshore, marine riparian and adjoining upland areas, important to a high diversity of
aquatic and terrestrial species. Shorelines can provide
public access, when compatible with conservation
objectives, via well planned trails and other amenities.
We recognize the Island’s 58 miles of shoreline are
integral to the larger Puget Sound ecosystem which
gives added significance and importance to our shoreline conservation efforts.
To view or download a copy of the full Conservation
Plan, visit our website: www.bi-landtrust.org.
Legacy Gifts
can change the future
a
Help preserve our island’s living landscapes
for generations to come with a bequest.
Bainbridge Island Land Trust
for more information, contact Asha or Laura
206.842.1216 • bi-landtrust.org
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From the President (Hard at Work at Hilltop)
by Tom Backer
There has been a lot of activity at Hilltop
since the Land Trust acquired this critically
located 31-acre property (with a short-term
mortgage) this past fall. Fundraising for the project
continues with about 20% of the $3.6 million fundraising goal yet to be raised. We still have a steep hill
to climb to close out the capital campaign, but we
know that we can make it with your support. Thanks
so much to all of you who have generously helped to
make this parkland acquisition possible. There is currently a $50,000 challenge grant available to match
contributions, so you can double the impact of your
first (or additional) donation – if you make it soon!
To contribute or pledge to Hilltop, go online to www.
bi-landtrust.org, use the
enclosed envelope, or
contact the Land Trust
Grand
Forest
office at 206-842-1216.
Archaeological investigations required by state
grant funds may delay
trail development for a
bit, but the District is still
hopeful that the trail can be in place this year.
Mill
er R
oad
Land Trust volunteers have been hard at work on the
orchard, the meadow, and the barn. The trees in the
orchard were pruned this spring after years of benign
neglect. The Park District has started a program of
regular mowing of the meadow for weed control, and
nearly an acre of invasive Scotch Broom was removed
by an outside contractor using a massive mowing machine. In addition, most of the old fencing surrounding
the perimeter of the
meadow has been
removed to allow
for the free passage
Meigs
Park
Wildlife
Corridor
& Farm
of wildlife (and huThe Park District is
Heart of the
Forest
mans). At the barn,
busy with the northern
volunteers removed
Grand
8.16-acre portion of the
Forest
Hilltop
much of the old hay
Grand
Hilltop site, which it
Forest
and straw left over
acquired from the Land
from the prior horseTrust earlier this year.
boarding operations,
The Land Trust apand they’ve been
plied for and received
working on general
Aerial map showing location of Hilltop and Heart of the Forest.
a generous $12,650
site cleanup. Some
matching grant from the
dilapidated outbuildings were removed by the Park
Bainbridge Island Rotary Club for repairs and renovaDistrict and accumulated debris was hauled away.
tions to “Prue’s House,” the main cabin at Hilltop. The
While the barn, which was built in the 1950s, is in
Park District has started updating the essential faciligenerally good condition, parts of it are showing its
ties at the house (heating, plumbing, etc.) so that it
age. The Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop
can be returned to use. The Park District has also been
recently volunteered to assist with renovating some of
working on plans for a trail across the Hilltop propthe barn’s doors and windows.
erty that connects the East and West Grand Forest.
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Entering Hilltop, upland forest. © Tom Schworer
The Land Trust and the Park District will continue to
work together on renovations to the barn and the site,
and we look forward to opening it to public use later this
year. If you would like to get involved with any of the
volunteer activities at Hilltop, please check our website
for work-party opportunities or contact the Land Trust
office. We are proud to have acquired this property with
tremendous community support from more than 420
individual donors and foundations and we will continue
to work hard to complete the capital campaign. Thank
you for your continued support!
Ian Bentryn prunes rain, snow or
shine ©Tom Backer
Prue’s House, by Kristin Tollefson
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A Wa r m
and
S u n n y N ati v e P l ant S ale I ns pi res S h o ppe rs
by Jonnie Dunne
John and Maryann were also on hand during the sale,
mingling with customers and offering advice on how
best to utilize the plants that they had made available.
Volunteers included other BILT board members, staff
and members, as well as high schoolers interested
in environmental science. Each year the event runs
more smoothly, and this year was no exception thanks
largely to these volunteers.
Although turnout and orders were lower this year than
Intern Jonnie Dunne and volunteer Lauren Cuykendall
assist customers. © Paul Brians
our record-breaker in 2011, this important fundraiser
remains a primary means of supplementing the BILT
Stewardship Fund each year. This fund ensures that
With the help of a few dozen volunteers and
some wonderful weather, the Land Trust’s
7th annual Native Plant Sale held on April
21st was a great success. For a few hours on a bright
and breezy Saturday, the Eagle Harbor Congregational
Church parking lot was filled with bright white trillium blossoms and busy volunteers buzzing between
customers with questions and orders that required
close attention.
Board
members
John
van den
Meerendonk and
Maryann
Ferns, Native Plant Sale. © Paul Brians
Kirkby
worked
closely with BILT staff and regional plant nurseries to
select a diverse mix of over 40 different native species well-suited for both gardens and wildlife habitat.
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Paula Elliott and Linda Purdy enjoy the day.
© Paul Brians
BILT has the capacity to monitor all Trust-protected
lands annually, to legally defend protected lands when
necessary, and to perform habitat restoration work on
those protected lands that need it most.
All told, nearly 2,000 native plants were distributed
through the sale this year! Each of these plants is now
playing a small part in enhancing the Puget Sound
ecosystem, and may do so for years to come.
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C e le br ati n g S u q ua m is h Tri bal H isto ry
by Frank Stowell
The Land Trust was very pleased to be able
to partner with the Suquamish Museum, the
Bainbridge Island Historical Museum and
IslandWood in the presentation of the Suquamish Tribal History that was given on May 17th in the
Great Hall at IslandWood. The presentation was made
by Leonard Forsman, the Tribal Chairman, and Dennis
Lewarch, the Tribe’s Historic Preservation officer, who
summarized the archeology and cultural history of the
Suquamish People and outlined the Tribe’s contemporary cultural resurgence.
The Tribe was invited to the Land Trust’s first Blackberry Festival which was held in the meadow at the
head of Blakely Harbor, and few present will forget the
dramatic entrance of the Tribe’s canoe to the mill pond
with tribal members singing a traditional greeting song,
welcoming all to their usual and accustomed waters.
The Tribe returned the following year when the Blackberry Festival was held at what is now Pritchard Park,
bringing sockeye salmon they had caught in Lake
Washington and which they donated
and grilled for the Festival’s Salmon
Dinner, with the proceeds going towards acquisition of the Park.
BILT and the Tribe share a deep commitment to preserving the natural
environment. BILT’s relationship with
Recently, the Tribe’s fisheries biolothe Suquamish Tribe goes back to 2002
gists and archeologists have provided
when the Trust participated in a comvaluable technical support for several
plex tidelands exchange with the state
on-going BILT shoreline restoration and
Department of Natural Resources and
acquisition projects.
the Tribe which allowed the Suquamish
to regain ownership of the tidelands in
Leonard Forsman,
front of their then tribal headquarters on Suquamish Tribal Chairman The Tribe has truly been a wonderful
partner in BILT’s efforts to save open
Rich Passage. In thanks for our efforts,
© Paul Brians
space and protect shorelines here on
BILT and its President Steph Miller, who
Bainbridge Island. We are grateful for all that, for their
had helped with the negotiations, were presented with
long history as the original stewards of the land we
a special Seven Generation Award from the Tribe “for
love, and for this fascinating presentation by Chairman
spirit of cooperation and vision for the future,” which
is still proudly displayed in the Land Trust office today. Forsman and Mr. Lewarch.
In the succeeding years, the Tribe also gave BILT a
generous grant to help with the 2005 purchase of the
64-acre Close Property addition to the Gazzam Lake
Preserve. Close included 550 feet of undisturbed shorelines which are important to support the aquatic drift
cell on the west shore of the Island and a critical forage
fish spawning habitat.
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SHORELINE RESTORATION
Visit our website, www.bi-landtrust.org, for the latest on our
Port Madison Shoreline Restoration Project, a restoration of
1,500 lineal feet of shoreline to improve critical habitat for
salmonids and the forage fish on which they depend. This
project is being voluntarily undertaken by the landowners
(the Powel family), in partnership with Bainbridge Island
Land Trust and the Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
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L an d Trust Te a ms
by J onnie D unne
w ith
High School
This spring, the Land Trust undertook
an exciting new monitoring project with
Bainbridge High School students. The
project both provided them with training in
environmental science and gathered information on
our Wildlife Corridor, 20 acres of conserved forest and
forested wetlands between Meigs Park and the Grand
Forest East.
Last fall, BILT
approached Jason
Uitvlugt, who
teaches Advanced
Placement Environmental Science
at the high school,
about working
with his class of
32 students, mostly college-bound
seniors. This
project fit perfectly with their
Tess Harper, BHS senior, finds
academic cala northern salamander egg mass.
© Brenda Padgham
endar, because
for most of the
school year the students prepare for a standardized test
in early May. After the test, they have the opportunity
to practice what they have learned. The project also
dovetailed with Uitveldt’s responsibilities as volunteer
lead steward on this Trust-owned property.
The class divided into eight teams of four students
each to gather data on the amphibian and reptile
populations, conduct bird surveys, analyze the plant
communities, map invasive species, record common
forestry metrics, test water, and sample soils. These
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themes are all integral to the Advanced Placement curriculum, and are helpful in understanding the ecological health of a site such as the Wildlife Corridor. Local
volunteer mentors were recruited to provide close
instruction and training in appropriate field protocols,
while also teaching the students about career opportunities in environmental science. These generous volunteer experts included George Gerdts, Alan Westphal,
Jim Peek, Robert Knable, Cami Apfelbeck, Lucas
Jordan, Kent Scott and two WSU Extension agents,
Dana Coggon and Arno Bergstrom.
The students prepared reports that were filed in concert with Uitvlugt’s site scale monitoring report, as
well as a GIS site analysis. All of this material will
help to satisfy some of the goals of BILT’s recently
completed Wildlife Corridor management plan. For
example, one of the goals is the removal of invasive
weeds on the property. After the students had spent
three field days gathering information, a speedy analysis and report from the invasive species mapping team
directed their energies to removal of several weed species in critical areas. The data they collected will also
be used by other biology students at the high school
for exercises in data analysis.
All this should increase interest in both environmental science and the Land Trust’s mission to preserve
and steward the diverse natural environment of
Bainbridge. In fact, talk about this field project may
have already contributed to dramatically increasing
popularity of this class. Fall registration indicates that
instead of about 30, there will be roughly 150 environmental science students in the 2012-13 school year!
With so many potential participants, Jason Uitvlugt
and the Land Trust definitely hope to repeat this successful program again next May.
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SC o C o C o nti n u es I m press i v e P ro gress
by Jonnie Dunne
(A i d e d
by
G oats )
Both past and prospective members of the Student Conservation
Corps continued actively stewarding community parklands last
fall and again this spring.
The Student Conservation Corps (SCoCo)
is a program cosponsored annually by
the Bainbridge Island
Metropolitan Park &
Recreation District,
Sustainable Bainbridge
and the Land Trust
since 2010. SCoCo
provides high school
students with several
Students Eve Wiggins and
Orion Brown Black from the
weeks’ paid ecological
2011 SCOC removing ivy from
restoration work during
trees at Blakely Harbor Park.
© Jacob Dyste.
the summer as well as
environmental and enviro-career track education.
This March, a mix of fresh faces and SCoCo veterans
showed up for try-out work parties, hoping to snag one
of the 20 (or more, if we can fund them) spots available
in this summer’s Corps. They learned the techniques
and methods employed during summer work while
removing Scotch broom and ivy at Pritchard Park for
two consecutive days. In this short time, the group of
applicants removed around 90% of the Scotch broom in
the easternmost meadow, signaling some great work to
come from the 2012 summer SCoCo session.
Thanks to the co-sponsors, to SCoCo’s intrepid leader,
Barb Trafton, and to the Bainbridge Community Foundation, the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation and the
federal AmeriCorps program for helping to make this
program possible. And thanks especially to all past and
prospective SCoCo members and volunteers for their
invaluable community service!
In October and December, 2011, Corps members satisfied their contract by recruiting volunteers to join them
for weekend work parties at Blakely Harbor Park
and the adjacent Yama property. SCoCo members,
friends and family came out for some soggy yet
satisfying work. They removed mats of ivy from the
ground and trees just west of the 3T parking lot at
Blakely Harbor Park —in collaboration with a herd
of goats that the Park District had set loose on the
vegetation earlier that year. The following week they
returned to the trees they had cleared at Yama the
previous summer, assuring that ivy regrowth would
not undo all their prior hard work. Finally, SCoCo
volunteers spent an entire day planting native species
along the banks of Tani Creek and among the 3TSean Simonsen
area trees.
©Barb Trafton
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Katie Alpaugh © Jacob Dyste
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B e lov e d L an dsc apes :
P ete D e G ro ot
by Paul Brians
a n d th e
H e a rt
o f th e
F o rest
Studerus and Peter C. DeGroot, Sr., purchased the land
In 2007, after many
that now includes the Heart of the Forest and the hillyears of intermittent
side area just north of the Grand Forest West, where
talks, Pete DeGroot
agreed to sell his family’s Pete DeGroot grew up and where he lives today.
19-acre “Heart of the
DeGroot thinks his father was attracted by the property
Forest” property to
partly because a skid road ran behind the house where
the Bainbridge Island
logs, during the original logging of the area, were run
Pete DeGroot
Land Trust for a deeply
©Paul Brians &
down to Manzanita Bay to be assembled into booms
discounted bargain sale
Sandy Schubach
and taken to regional mills. For many years, he cut and
price and with 5-year
sold firewood from the land.
seller financing. His actions enabled BILT
and its supporters to permanently protect
In 1962, his father began to reforest it by transplantthis amazing land, which connects the
ing thousands of Douglas fir saplings which he found
North and West segments of the Grand
growing alongside the road on his way
Forest and includes the
home from logging work on the mainheadwaters of fish-bearing
land. Today, many of those trees rise to
Issei Creek. See p. 4 for map.
120 feet in height.
On December 31, 2011, thanks
to many generous donors,
The trees were planted as a crop, in
BILT made the last payment
rows aligned with the old radio antenna
on that mortgage loan. (The
on Battle Point, and in some spots the
few remaining pledges still
rows can still be made out.
outstanding on this project will
go towards funding long-term
Born on Bainbridge in 1936, Pete
stewardship of the property.)
enjoyed growing up on the island,
The article below contains
which was then a tight-knit community.
excerpts from an oral history
Peter C. DeGroot, Sr. and
Louise Studerus DeGroot, 1932
He was told that when he was a small
interview with Pete conducted
child, his mother used to wheel him in
by Paul Brians on April 9,
a baby carriage all the way to Pleasant Beach to visit
2012.
P
Pete DeGroot’s great-grandfather, Pieter de Groote,
emigrated from the Netherlands to Wisconsin in 1847.
His own father arrived on Bainbridge in 1929 as part
of a family of loggers. In 1932, his parents, Louise
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friends, walking all that distance on gravel roads when
his father was using the family car.
He also remembers coming back from the four-room
elementary school in Lynwood Center on the bus, get-
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ting off at the Fletcher Bay intersection to buy candy
at the little grocery store there, and running over a
mile to get home on foot before the bus made it around
Battle Point to his home.
When he was a young boy, he would sometimes smell
smoke on the property, which his father told him was
the smoldering roots of trees that had burned many
years earlier. Although his father always feared that
underground fires would re-ignite the forest, they
never did.
But DeGroot’s memories of days spent stacking cords
of firewood with his brother, and wrestling chokers
around logs on hot, steep slopes, decided him against
continuing the family logging tradition. Instead he got
a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of
Washington and worked for fifty years for the Poulsbo
surveying firm now known as “ADA Engineering” (the
“D” stands for “DeGroot”).
He enjoyed the fact that his surveying career often
took him out into the woods. He also inherited his
father’s love for carpentry and fine woodworking, and
has milled wood from diseased trees on the property
for several construction projects.
When DeGroot’s mother died in 1995, he inherited the
property and moved back to his childhood home. He
has enjoyed maintaining the trees his father planted
and the ponds his father dug. He built the handsome
structure just north of the house—which looks like a
small house itself—about eight years ago. It’s actually
his woodshop.
Will Morris and Eli Bennett hug a tree in the
Heart of The Forest © Susan Marie Andersson
After the family acquired a second car, Pete’s mother
became a World War II volunteer shuttle driver for
people working shifts at an aircraft-warning tower on
Arrow Point.
His father loved to work in the woods. When he was
not out logging, he was tending his trees, lopping off
lower limbs on his firs to create knot-free lumber,
clearing away competing brush, and creating a series
of ponds cascading down the hillside. He built a retaining wall on the property from discarded stones dug out
of nearby strawberry fields. He also built and carved
beautiful furniture and cabinetry and created exquisite
miniature buildings to accompany his brother’s rock
collection.
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He’s not only a steward of the woods, but of the headwaters of Issei Creek, building a series of cascades to
aerate the outflow from the ponds. His family’s love
for the land has made possible the preservation of the
beautiful wooded slope and wetlands which now make
up the Heart of the Forest.
People conserve land for many reasons,
but most often because they feel a deep and
abiding love for one special place on this
Earth. If there’s a special place on Bainbridge
Island that you want to protect forever, call
the Land Trust today at 206.842.1216.
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Vo lu nte e rs 2012*
Soaring Big Leaf Maples at Gazzam © Paul Brians
Bainbridge Island Land Trust relies on volunteers to accomplish its
mission to preserve and steward the diverse natural environment of
Bainbridge Island for the benefit of all. Thank You to all who have
pitched in so far this year!!!
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Barb Robert • Don Rooks • Deb Rudnick • Stan Rullman • Jo Schaffer • Emily Schneider • Susanne
Schneider • Sandy Schubach • Kent Scott • Markham Scott • Sandy Shopes • Alice Shorett • Dave
Shorett • Cathy Smith • Marty Smith • Carol Sperling • Dale Sperling • Collin Spikes • Maddy
Stevenson • Roger Stewart • Nolan Stockman • Kjell Stoknes • Marilyn Stoknes • Haley Story •
Frank Stowell • Jennifer Sutton • Miles Tarr-Raines • Nancy Taylor • Mary Terry • John Thomas •
Dave Thorne • Ginger Thrash • Jim Thrash • Mary Ann Tollefson • Val Tollefson • Barbara Trafton •
Craig Trueblood • Wendy Tyner • Jason Uitvlugt • John van den Meerendonk • Cindy Vandersluis •
Connie Waddington • Zephyr Wadkins • Chris Waldbillig • Jane Wentworth • Vickie Wenzlau • Alan
Westphal • Leslie Whalen • Walker Willingham • Don Willott • James Wood • Nicola Yarbrough •
Barb Zimmer • Conrad Zimney • Ed Zimney
*If you’ve volunteered in 2012 but we’ve inadvertently left you off the list above, our apologies.
Please let us know so that we can acknowledge your service in the Fall newsletter.
Correction: • On page 7 of our 2011 Annual Report, we erroneously attributed a photo taken at the
Holly Hunt to photographer Paul Brians. That photo was actually taken by Meegan Reid of the Kitsap
Sun. Our apologies, and thanks again to Ms. Reid and the Kitsap Sun for sharing this image with
BILT.
Bainbridge Island Land Trust — Trustworthy News — Volume 23 #1