Marathon organizer creates people-powered incentives
August 17th, 2007Walking, running or biking to the StreamFest site will earn recognition both days, and those arriving on their own power Sunday will be eligible for raffle prizes. North Olympic Discovery Marathon organizers Larry and Michelle Little are creating incentives for participants in North Olympic Land Trust’s StreamFest to use their own power to get to Ennis Arbor Farm events Sept. 8 and 9. Read the rest of this entry »
StreamFest’s People-Powered Participants
August 17th, 2007North Olympic Discovery Marathon organizers Larry and Michelle Little are creating incentives for participants in North 
Olympic Land Trust’s StreamFest to use their own power to get to Ennis Arbor Farm events Sept. 8 and 9.
“People-Powered Participants” will be able to choose from three different routes to walk, run or bicycle, ranging from 1 to 4 miles to StreamFest’s Ennis Arbor Farm site across from Peninsula Golf Club. Trailheads will be the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Peninsula College and the Eagles parking lot. Suggested routes will be available at the North Olympic Discovery Marathon’s StreamFest page.
For Saturday’s StreamFest, those arriving by their own power will have an opportunity to be recognized in the Big Top Tent. For Sunday’s StreamFest, they will qualify for entering a raffle. The Littles are rounding up raffle prizes, including a framed Elwha Reflections print by Bob Kaune.
Larry Little said he wants to encourage people to enjoy existing trails and become advocates for more trails that will encourage a healthy lifestyle and enjoyment of the area’s exceptional environment.
Conservation Conversations take another breather
August 16th, 2007Working on Conservation Conversations as well as a record number of requests for help in protecting special qualities of land was enough to leave staff and volunteers gasping for more time if not breath.
Development Committee Co-Chairperson Jim Mantooth said it was clear that priority for limited time needed to go to finishing agreements to protect land.
He hopes some form of the Conversations can resume in 2008, but he’d like more of them to be on properties the organization protects. “We want people to see the organization’s work first hand,” he said.
Land owner and Land Trust volunteer Toni Wade shares her point of view
August 14th, 2007Share the memories of Toni Wade, who grew up on Chickamin Stick Tree Farm, just west of Port Angeles. She and her husband, Norm, have protected the 40 acres as sustainable timberland and an education center through an agreement with North Olympic Land Trust and a division of Merrill and Ring. Toni, an active volunteer for the Land Trust and tree farm education center, is on the StreamFest at Ennis Arbor Farm schedule again to host Pond Critters Open House. She also is leading educational tree planting at Ennis Creek, Chickamin Stick Tree Farm and other properties the Land Trust protects.
OUR ROOTS GIVE you strength and pull you back. I grew up across the road from the 40-acre Chickamin Stick Tree Farm in Dry Creek, which my family owned, west of Port Angeles.
That gave me roots and pulls me back to preserve, protect and educate. We were proud of our trees. My mom spent hours hunting down honeysuckle, determined not to let it harm the trees. My dad and brother cut firewood and decided which trees to thin out. Read the rest of this entry »