San Juan Preservation Trust

The San Juan Preservation Trust is a private, non-profit and membership-based land trust dedicated to helping people and communities conserve land on the San Juan Islands in Washington state.[1] Noted for its $6.4 million purchase of Vendovi Island in 2010 and its $18.5 million acquisition of Turtleback Mountain on Orcas Island in 2006, the Preservation Trust has permanently protected 270 properties, 38 miles of shoreline and 16,000 acres on 20 islands, including land now managed as public parks, nature preserves, wildlife habitat, and working farms and forests. The organization was founded in 1979. The first transaction of the trust was made by Ernest K. Gann and Dodie Post Gann in 1980, when they donated 38 acres of their farm as a working agriculture preserve.[2]

San Juan Preservation Trust
Formation1979 (1979)
TypeNonprofit
91-1078355
Legal status501(c)(3)
HeadquartersFriday Harbor, Washington
Board President
Barbara Rosenkotter
Executive Director
Angela Anderson
Erik Anderson; Willy Borner; Tom Cowan; David Duggins; Geoff Dunbar; Charles Givens; Nacy Greene; Jack Gorban; Sarah Hart; Peter Kalpatrick; Judy Meyer; Mary Miller; Joann Otto; Michael Popiwny; Barbara Rosenkotter; Phil Sherburne; Camille Uhlir
Websitehttps://sjpt.org/

References

  1. "San Juan Preservation Trust Earns National Recognition". Orcas Issues. February 22, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. Webber/Roochvarg, Lynn. "San Juan Preservation Trust". Historylink.org. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
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