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News - North Olympic Land Trust is offering gift ideas that will last much longer than the holiday season

Gift givers can purchase listings on a plaque at the Clallam County Courthouse and help the nonprofit Land Trust permanently protect special qualities of area lands, said Greg Good, the organization’s Executive Director.

Listings can be names of givers or names of people they want to honor or memorialize. Each listing is $100. A form on the Land Trust’s Web site, www.nolt.org, for sending in names and making payments by credit card can be printed out and mailed to the Land Trust office, 104 N. Laurel, Suite 104, Port Angeles 98362. Donors also may pay by check enclosed with the mailed form or they may arrange for credit card payment and listings by calling the office, 360-417-1815, Good said.

Names are added to a plaque at the Courthouse each January.

Plaques are mounted in the hall just west of the Elwha Return Courthouse artwork the Land Trust donated to the County. The Land Trust received the 6-foot-long artwork depicting returning salmon from local artists Clark Mundy, Darrell Charles Jr. and Al Charles Jr.

Mundy said he and the other artists gave it to the Land Trust to help the organization raise funds for protecting special lands and remind the public of the importance of working together for the benefit of present and future generations. The artwork is in the Courthouse’s main entry, off Fourth Street.

Good, who joined the Land Trust staff as its first executive director, said he has been impressed with the broad support names on the plaque show for the Land Trust’s work in protecting qualities of the area’s exceptional lands.

Since local citizens formed the Land Trust in 1990, the organization has protected more than 1,400 acres with such qualities as habitat for salmon and other wildlife, farmland, sustainable commercial timberland, clean water and air, scenic vistas and cultural heritage. About half of the protected land is in the Sequim-Dungeness area and other land extends to western Clallam County.  Application for a Plaque is located in our How You Can Help section.

Posted December 12, 2008