Conservation Breakfast 2022 Offers Rich Food for Thought!

Earlier this month at our 2022 Virtual Conservation Breakfast, more than 300 community members joined us virtually for Listening to the Land: Understanding the Indigenous Landscape of Jefferson County. Guided by moderator David Brownell, Executive Director of the North Olympic History Center and a Land Trust Board member, special guest panelists discussed the past, present, and future of land conservation and protection, focusing on traditional ecological knowledge and practice in east Jefferson County.

We also enjoyed a warm welcome and introduction from Vice Chair of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council Loni Greninger (included in the event video below) and heard from Executive Director Richard Tucker about the vital collaborations between the Land Trust and local Indigenous Tribes that support community powered conservation.

We were honored to learn from such knowledgeable and engaging panelists and thrilled to gather online with so many of our friends, neighbors, and supporters who share our passion for the land. Thanks to their generosity, we were also able to raise more than $28,000 for local land conservation!

Thank you to all who helped make Conservation Breakfast 2022 our biggest Breakfast yet and a huge success!

Conservation Breakfast 2022 Video:

Here’s what one Conservation Breakfast attendee had to say:

“My hat is off to you all! Today’s panelist discussion was one of the most honest and down-to-earth that I’ve seen at a virtual event (not an easy thing to do!), and the whole program flowed together so beautifully. I’ll be moving into the next part of my day incredibly inspired to be both a part of the Land Trust community and a resident on S’Klallam and Chimacum land and I hope you all are feeling the same!”

Some Related Activities:

• Learn more about the history of the Olympic Peninsula at monthly Learning Our Landscape lectures — a partnership between the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the North Olympic History Center.
• Visit the Kah Tai Prairie in Port Townsend.
• Pick up a copy of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, the book that many of the panelists mentioned.
• Plan a trip to Tamanowas Rock, a site of cultural and spiritual significance for the S’Klallam people of the Jamestown, Port Gamble and Lower Elwha Tribes and the Chimacum people for millennia.
• Read this Science.org story: Pacific Northwest’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people.

Thank You 2022 Conservation Breakfast Sponsors!