Streamfest 2007 - Two big days this September!
May 23rd, 2007Streamfest 2007 will soon be here. This September, you’ll be able to enjoy our fun activities and help protect the North Olympic Peninsula’s special lands at Streamfest 2007!
This year, Streamfest 2007 will be a two day event (September 8th and 9th) and will include an interesting Dungeness Valley Insider’s Tour, an outdoor concert, a Salmon Cookout Fundraiser and much, much more. It’s an all-family event you most definitely will not want to miss.
For more more information regarding the Streamfest 2007 events, dates, times and how to obtain tickets, please download our Poster or visit our News and Events page for further information. You can also download our Ticket/Volunteer Form.
What’s an RSS Feed? And How Can I Use It?
May 9th, 2007What are RSS feeds and how do I use them?
An RSS feed, such as the one offered on our website, is a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read all our latest news. Basically, when a new article is posted or a change is made to a webpage, RSS keeps track of the changes and delivers a summary to you, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a given website’s feed by using a feed reader, you’ll receive a summary of new content from that website. Read the rest of this entry »
Step-by-Step to get the Land Trust’s RSS news feed from Google
May 9th, 2007Getting news feeds from the North Olympic Land Trust is as easy as 1-2-3. Well, maybe as easy as counting to ten! Here is a step-by-step to get a news reader from Google, one of the popular choices for a free news reader.
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Use your Browser to go to the Google http://www.google.com/.
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Click on the reader.google.com link and sign up for an account.
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Once you have an account, sign in with your password and click on the link that says “Manage Account.”
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One of the Services listed on the right side is “Reader.” When you click on that, you should be on the Google Reader Page where you can add the RSS feeds you want to have in your list to view.
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Click on the button that says “Add Subscription.”
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Up will pop a box that will ask you to enter a search term to find feeds OR “paste a feed URL.”
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That’s where you paste the URL (known as a domain address) for the North Olympic Land Trust which is: http://www.northolympiclandtrust.org/
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Click “add” Google also lists a lot of other feeds you can add as well in the same way (i.e.: choose “paste a feed URL” and paste in the URL of your choice.)
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Once you hit the “Add” button, the Land Trust feed will show up underneath the “Add” box.
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Click on that, and up will come all the feeds that have been entered on the site, with the most recent being a link and stories list for the Land Trust’s StreamFest 2007!
No matter which method you choose, we hope you’ll soon be enjoying all the latest news from North Olympic Land Trust! You can also add feeds from like-minded organizations such as the National Land Trust Alliance.
Eventually, you’ll probably end up with more feeds than you want or can read regularly. In most readers, to delete a feed you’re no longer interested in, you simply delete its title. Then your RSS reader won’t seek out that information anymore, and you won’t get any content from the publisher unless you go to its site or resubscribe to the feed.
Land Trust helps Lazy J owner protect farmland, salmon stream
May 7th, 2007
Steve Johnson protects Siebert Creek and Lazy J Tree Farm through North Olympic Land Trust Lazy J Tree Farm owner Steve Johnson stays busy producing Christmas trees, apple cider, garlic, potatoes and mulch. But the salmon and steelhead in Siebert Creek, the stream that flows through the farm, also are important to him.
Just this year he planted about a thousand Western Red Cedar seedlings along the creek. He’s worked with fisheries staff from the Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam tribes to improve fish habitat with huge logs and stumps.
Now he’s completed an agreement with North Olympic Land Trust to protect about a half mile of Siebert Creek and a portion of his farmland permanently.