| | | | Hello Friend, Last week I celebrated Thanksgiving with my loved ones. We toasted to health, happiness, and all that we are thankful for this year. As I reflect on the many successes we’ve achieved together, I feel a deep sense of gratitude for your ongoing support. This year has been remarkable: we’ve seen the return of more than 900,000 chum salmon – an unprecedented surge – and witnessed the historic return of Southern Resident orcas to Penn Cove on Whidbey Island. These moments of progress are a direct result of our collective efforts, and I’m thankful for all that we’ve accomplished together. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re preparing to celebrate Great Peninsula Conservancy’s 25th Anniversary, and we want to hear from you. We’ve launched a brief survey to gather your thoughts on how we communicate, connect, and protect the places you care about. It’s quick, anonymous, and your feedback will help shape our future work. Please take 10 minutes to share your perspective before December 16 by clicking below. Thank you, as always, for being such an important part of our community. We couldn’t do this work without you. Yours in gratitude, | | | | | | | | | | | | In 2025, Great Peninsula Conservancy will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary. This exciting milestone is prompting us to reflect deeply on our journey, evaluate how we tell our story, and update our brand. To help with that process, we seek your invaluable insights! Your perspective is crucial as we honor our past and shape our future. We're launching a short survey to understand how our community perceives our work. This isn't just another questionnaire – it's your moment to influence how we communicate, connect, and make a difference in our community. In just 10 minutes, you can help us: - Understand what matters most to you
- Improve how we share our conservation stories
- Strengthen our connection with supporters like you
The survey is quick, optional to do anonymously, and will be open until 11:59 PM on Monday, December 16. Your insights are truly powerful – they will guide our work and help us better serve our shared environmental goals. Ready to make an impact? Click the Start Survey button below, or click this link, and let your voice be heard! | | | | | | | | 🌲 Help Protect Our Region’s Wild Spaces🌲 Join us this Giving Tuesday, December 3rd | |  | Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday – and this year, it’s all about our home. From lush forests to salmon-bearing streams, Great Peninsula Conservancy works every day to protect the natural treasures of Kitsap, north Mason, and west Pierce counties. And we couldn’t do it without you. Thanks to a generous supporter, every gift made between now and Giving Tuesday will be doubled. Will you help us reach our goal of $15,000? Will you join us in making Giving Tuesday a day of commitment to the land we love? Click here to make your matched donation now 👉 Giving Tuesday. | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 2021, Great Peninsula Conservancy’s (GPC) stewardship team has girdled over 800 trees across eight preserves. Tree girdling is the process of cutting strips of bark from a tree so that the dying tree provides valuable habitat for local wildlife and helps to open dense stands of forest. This work was funded through the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative (Cornell). To assess the efficacy of these habitat features, Cornell funded two internships with University of Washington Environmental Studies students this summer. The interns, Maya Clauson-Nehus and Abby Rocke, worked with GPC’s stewardship team to assess the efficacy of those built wildlife habitat features. Visit our blog to learn more about their work. | | | | | | | | Thanks For Taking a Stand to Support Salmon | |  | Washington voters have let their voices be known! Thank you to everyone who voted to reject I-2117 and stood up for Washington's environmental legacy. This victory means we can continue our vital work of protecting salmon streams, shorelines, and wildlife habitat across our region.   | | | | | | | | Stewardship Work Party: Invasive Species Removal at Klingel Join Great Peninsula Conservancy for our upcoming winter Stewardship Work Party! This will be the first of two work parties focused on removing invasive blackberry and scotch broom at Beard’s Cove to protect our 2022 tree plantings! Learn more about our original planting project here: Planting for the future at Klingel-Bryan-Beard When: Saturday, December 14th, from 10:00am-12:30pm Where: Klingel-Bryan-Beard Wetland Wildlife Refuge | | | | | | | | Walk and Talk: Community Forests Join GPC’s Stewardship Coordinator, Michaela Petrini, on Saturday, December 21st, from 10:00am–12:00pm for a guided tour through the Newberry Woods Community Forest. Join in a discussion of the many ways that our local community forests can contribute to the health and vitality of the Peninsula and beyond! When: Saturday, December 21st, from 10:00am-12:30pm Where: Silverdale, WA | | | | | | | | | | | | "We have been very impressed for years by how effective and efficient GPC is in fulfilling its conservation vision with an eye toward permanent protection of shorelands, forests, and farmlands." Keith Baldwin's environmental interests and legal experience have provided countless benefits to GPC – including his current service on GPC's board of directors as Vice President. Keith's perspective on the importance of planned giving to create a strong financial foundation for the future is particularly prudent. This summer Keith and his wife Margaret made the generous decision to include Great Peninsula Conservancy in their wills and encourage others to consider this option to provide sustaining support to our conservation mission. "We felt that a longer-term contribution to GPC that would be part of our legacy was consistent with our current needs and the long-range needs and mission of the organization. A legacy gift doesn’t deprive us of any financial assets that we might need during our lifetimes." Visit our website to learn more about the Baldwins and how you too can make an impact. | | | | | | Sponsorship Opportunities | | | | | |  | | | | | | | Like what we're up to? Our work is made possible by generous donors like you. | | | | | |  | | | | | If this email was forwarded to you, you can join our e-news to receive your own copy in the future. | | | | | | | |
