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Land Trust offers green gift ideas

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Environmentally friendly gift ideas include listings on a plaque down the hall from the Clallam County Courthouse artwork in the entry off Fourth Street. The artwork, titled Elwha Return, is pictured at its dedication earlier this year featuring members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Clark Mundy, one of the three donating artists. Donations of $100 per listing help North Olympic Land Trust protect special qualities of land in the County. Donations for picnic blankets, shopping bags and hats with the Land Trust logo also are raising money to help the Land Trust uphold a record number of voluntary permanent legal agreements expected to cover more than 1,500 acres by year’s end.

North Olympic Land Trust is offering gift ideas to help protect special lands and minimize harmful environmental impacts.Listings on a plaque in the Clallam County Courthouse are $100 each. Names will be added to a plaque in January. The first plaque, with about 100 names, has been mounted in the hall just west of the Elwha Return Courthouse artwork that was donated to the County. Local artists Clark Mundy, Darrell Charles Jr. and Al Charles Jr. created the 6-foot-long artwork of hammered copper, Western Red Cedar, and abalone, and gave it to the Land Trust so the organization could give it the County for permanent display in the Courthouse entry on Fourth Street. In addition to helping the Land Trust raise funds for protecting special lands, Mundy said he wants the artwork to remind the public of the importance of working together for the benefit of present and future generations.

“This is a perfect way we can give to each other and give to our environment at the same time,” said Land Trust Development Chairperson Jim Mantooth.

He said funds from plaque donations have already helped the organization protect a record number of acres this year, providing habitat for salmon and other wildlife, farmland, sustainable commercial timberland, clean water and air, scenic vistas, open spaces, and cultural heritage.

“The Land Trust’s responsibilities and accompanying expenses keep growing as more people want help in protecting these qualities that benefit us all,” he said.

The Land Trust will send a gift card with a full-color reproduction of the salmon art to each person honored with a listing or to family members of those honored as a memorial, he said. “That’s about as close to zero waste as a gift can be.”

The nonprofit organization also is selling forest green picnic blankets embroidered with the Land Trust logo. A black water-resistant backing folds up to create a bag with handles. Minimum donation for bags is $30 each plus $15 per order for mailing.

Reusable green shopping bags with logos of the Land Trust and Sunny Farms, donor of the bags, can be used as an alternative for gift wrapping, Mantooth said. Minimum donation is $2 each plus the $15 per order mailing fee.

Hats with the Land Trust logo are available for $15 each plus the $15 mailing fee.

Order forms can be downloaded here (Sales form) or requested from the Land Trust office, 360-417-1815.

Mailing fees can be avoided if items are purchased and picked up at the 5 to 6 p.m. social hour preceding the Land Trust’s annual meeting Thursday, Dec. 6, at The Bushwhacker Restaurant.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 11:13 am and is filed under Latest News.