Dear Friends, Because of your generous support last year, we were able to conserve 10 new properties totaling 1,286 acres and more than four miles of riparian habitat. We completed six new...
New Year’s Note from the Executive Director
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Community Partnerships Help Farmers Grow: An Update on Alluvial Farms
Community Partnerships Help Farmers Grow: An Update on Alluvial FarmsBy Lorraine Wilde and Aneka Sweeney It takes a village to build a farm and keep it viable long-term. In 2015, Katie Pencke and...
A Forever Commitment: Stewarding Land in Perpetuity
By Amanda McKay and Danielle Taylor October 2021 Field Friday at Todd Creek Walking through the wet grass, Danielle could hear the rushing river before she could see it. As Whatcom Land Trust’s...
Stewardship on Four Legs
BCHW and WLT trail ride Partnering with the Backcountry Horsemen of Whatcom County On a beautiful day in mid-July, four Whatcom Land Trust staff members mounted three horses and one mule to join...
Maple Creek Reach Birthday Work Party by Gabe Epperson
I’ve always been confused by the term- “work party.” It seemed like a marketing ploy to trick people into doing work without getting paid. However, since I started working with the Land Trust, I’ve...
Vamos Outdoors Project, Trails and Conservation: What Else is Needed to Build Access and Community?
By Andy Basabe, Director of Vamos Outdoors Project “Before jumping right into the article, I would like to acknowledge the people and communities that have stewarded the land in what is now referred...
Sustainable Farming the South Fork
There are so many reasons that Whatcom County is a special place, from its sweeping shorelines and marine estuaries, to its forested mountain sides and rivers. However, another crucial thread of the...
Celebrating Pride Month!
Celebrating Pride Month! Learn about some amazing organizations doing work at the intersection of sustainability and LGBTQ+ issues below: Out There Adventures Out There Adventures is a nonprofit...
Whatcom Land Trust Announces New Land Acquisition in the Skookum Creek Watershed
Wildflowers at Skookum II Skookum Creek and the riparian zone Rapids at Skookum Creek Bellingham, WA. – Whatcom Land Trust announces the purchase of an additional 1,000 acres of riparian and upland...
Sharing a Guillemot’s View of Governors Point by Ted Wolf
Photo courtesy of Alex Jeffers Photo credit of Janis Olson Photo credit of Janis Olson A half-dozen pigeon guillemots dropped from sandstone perches on Chuckanut Island and flew south toward...
