UPCOMING EVENTS

CALENDAR VIEW
Jan
30

Winter Twig ID Course

Join the North Olympic Salmon Coalition and the North Olympic Land Trust to learn to identify winter twigs! Learn more and register HERE. (And watch for registration for a similar event in Jefferson County in February!)

Location: Lyre Conservation Area, Clallam County

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Jan
31

Lisa Taylor: Conserving Water through Contours, Native Plants and Cisterns

Lisa is an educator, consultant, contributing author of the Maritime Northwest Garden Guide, 2nd ed., and Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals. Lisa is a Master Composter, a pioneer in Children’s Gardening, and has been teaching people of all ages to garden organically for 30 years.

Purchase tickets and find more information here.

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Feb
3

Community Forest Training Program

The Trust for Public Land is offering a five-month (November through March, once a month) virtual workshop series around best practices to support the creation and stewardship of community forests. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Feb
3

Ask a Master Gardener

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are pleased to work with you on your garden-related questions! For plant problem diagnosis bring a sample that clearly shows the difference between unhealthy and healthy tissue. Pick a fresh plant specimen, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel, and then come to the Ask a Master Gardener workshop. For plant identification bring a sample or picture that includes leaves, branches, stems, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure (if available), and a picture of the stem or bark. For insect identification bring the insect intact in a small container soon after capture.

Note: Master Gardeners need a fresh specimen to make an accurate identification or assessment of the issue. Learn more or submit a question online here.

Location: Port Townsend Public Library, 1220 Lawrence St, Port Townsend

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Feb
7

Backyard Sanctuaries: Gardening for Birds and Biodiversity

Backyard Sanctuaries: Gardening for Birds and Biodiversity ~ Yard & Garden Lecture Series at Jefferson County Fairgrounds. with Dr. Steve Hampton

Steve is an avid birder, writer, Conservation Chair and Christmas Bird Count Compiler for Rainshadow Bird Alliance, an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game.

Location: Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Port Townsend

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Feb
14

Working with Nature: Smarter, Safer Pest Management

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are proud to host Jenny Glass at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Let’s face it, pests can make gardening a real challenge. Jenny Glass, plant diagnostician for the WSU-Puyallup Plant and Insect Diagnostic Laboratory, will share practical strategies for resilience: choosing hardy plants, improving soil health, and adapting to changing conditions. In addition, she’ll highlight different gardening practices that help avoid pest problems, and showcase some of the good (and surprisingly interesting) organisms in your yard that are eager to help.

Cost: $15+ tax through eventbrite, or $20 at the door.

Location: Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Port Townsend

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Feb
27

Low Tide Night Walk

Join the Port Townsend Marine Science Center for a flash-lit (??) guided walk to see what happens on our beaches after dark. Bring weather-appropriate clothing and footwear, flashlight and/or headlamp. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: North Beach County Park, Port Townsend – register for specifics

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Mar
3

Community Forest Training Program

The Trust for Public Land is offering a five-month (November through March, once a month) virtual workshop series around best practices to support the creation and stewardship of community forests. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Mar
3

Ask a Master Gardener

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are pleased to work with you on your garden-related questions! For plant problem diagnosis bring a sample that clearly shows the difference between unhealthy and healthy tissue. Pick a fresh plant specimen, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel, and then come to the Ask a Master Gardener workshop. For plant identification bring a sample or picture that includes leaves, branches, stems, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure (if available), and a picture of the stem or bark. For insect identification bring the insect intact in a small container soon after capture.

Note: Master Gardeners need a fresh specimen to make an accurate identification or assessment of the issue. Learn more or submit a question online here.

Location: Port Townsend Public Library, 1220 Lawrence St, Port Townsend

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Apr
7

Ask a Master Gardener

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are pleased to work with you on your garden-related questions! For plant problem diagnosis bring a sample that clearly shows the difference between unhealthy and healthy tissue. Pick a fresh plant specimen, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel, and then come to the Ask a Master Gardener workshop. For plant identification bring a sample or picture that includes leaves, branches, stems, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure (if available), and a picture of the stem or bark. For insect identification bring the insect intact in a small container soon after capture.

Note: Master Gardeners need a fresh specimen to make an accurate identification or assessment of the issue. Learn more or submit a question online here.

Location: Port Townsend Public Library, 1220 Lawrence St, Port Townsend

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May
5

Ask a Master Gardener

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are pleased to work with you on your garden-related questions! For plant problem diagnosis bring a sample that clearly shows the difference between unhealthy and healthy tissue. Pick a fresh plant specimen, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel, and then come to the Ask a Master Gardener workshop. For plant identification bring a sample or picture that includes leaves, branches, stems, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure (if available), and a picture of the stem or bark. For insect identification bring the insect intact in a small container soon after capture.

Note: Master Gardeners need a fresh specimen to make an accurate identification or assessment of the issue. Learn more or submit a question online here.

Location: Port Townsend Public Library, 1220 Lawrence St, Port Townsend

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Jun
2

Ask a Master Gardener

Jefferson County Master Gardeners are pleased to work with you on your garden-related questions! For plant problem diagnosis bring a sample that clearly shows the difference between unhealthy and healthy tissue. Pick a fresh plant specimen, put the cut end of the stem in a moist paper towel, and then come to the Ask a Master Gardener workshop. For plant identification bring a sample or picture that includes leaves, branches, stems, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure (if available), and a picture of the stem or bark. For insect identification bring the insect intact in a small container soon after capture.

Note: Master Gardeners need a fresh specimen to make an accurate identification or assessment of the issue. Learn more or submit a question online here.

Location: Port Townsend Public Library, 1220 Lawrence St, Port Townsend

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Jan
24

How Urban Forests Sustain Us

Jefferson County Master Gardener Program is proud to host Dr Kathleen Wolfe, University of Washington Professor at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Port Townsend. She will discuss the decades of research show urban trees and access to nature lower risks for major diseases, strengthen immune and family well‑being, improve birth outcomes, and expand opportunities for healthy activity. Urban trees and green spaces are powerful public‑health assets.


Location: Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Port Townsend

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Jan
17

qatáy Weed Warriors Work Party

The qatáy Weed Warriors are a new group of volunteers working to restore many large and small prairie remnants at Camas Prairie Golf Park, 1948 Blaine Street, Port Townsend. Meet at the kiosk near the parking lot. Be sure to dress for the weather, bring warm gloves and favourite weeding tools. Heavy rain or wind cancels. Healthy snacks and warm beverages will be available. Tools and gloves are available to use.

At this time the focus is digging invasive grasses and other weeds from the designated prairie restoration areas throughout the park, with an estimated total area of 16 acres. Next spring barren areas will be planted with native grasses, bulbs and other prairie plants known to grow in this location. Since the change of park management more than a year ago, many species of prairie plants have been emerging, in these areas, which were suppressed by prior frequent mowing.

The qatáy Weed Warriors are officially registered volunteers for the Friends of Camas Prairie Golf Park, the managing non-profit organization, and upon volunteers first work party you must register and sign a liability wavier to participate. Monthly logs of work hours are kept for the park, and reported monthly to the City Parks Department on restoration progress.

For more information, please contact PTCamasPrairie@gmail.com.

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Jan
10

Winter Birding and Illustration

Learn more about the birds we share the Salish Sea with through art and birding with Port Townsend Marine Science Center!

Join us on Saturday January 10th from 10 AM-12 PM in the PTMSC Aquarium classroom (532 Battery Way in Fort Worden State Park). See some of our museum bird specimens that are not on display to the public, and practice scientific illustration as a group – no art skills required!

Afterwards, we will be birding on the pier with a chance to practice some nature journaling. Birders (and artists!) of all skill levels are welcome. Feel free to bring your own preferred art supplies/binoculars/scopes. Art supplies and binoculars provided.

This event is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.

RSVP here.

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Jan
6

Community Forest Training Program

The Trust for Public Land is offering a five-month (November through March, once a month) virtual workshop series around best practices to support the creation and stewardship of community forests. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Dec
15

Sequim-Dungeness Christmas Bird Count

Join Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society for their 50th annual Sequim-Dungeness Christmas Bird Count!

The SDCBC covers a 15-mile diameter circle. Christmas Bird Counts need lots of knowledgeable participants to cover as much ground as possible. If you are an experienced counter, we can use you by either joining another group or by helping to cover an area. If you are a new Christmas counter and can identify birds, you can count the birds around your neighborhood or backyards.

Learn more HERE.

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Dec
2

Community Forest Training Program

The Trust for Public Land is offering a five-month (November through March, once a month) virtual workshop series around best practices to support the creation and stewardship of community forests. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Nov
18

Rewetting Our Waterways: Floodplain Restoration in an Occupied Landscape

This virtual workshop, co-hosted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Salmon Foundation, and the Governor's Salmon Recovery Office, brings together experts to discuss how floodplain function has been altered by human activity. It will explore approaches to restore floodplain benefits to Pacific salmon and aquatic ecosystems in modified landscapes. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Nov
15

Port Townsend: For the Birds Multimedia Climate Concert and Clean Energy Talks

Join the Nelda Swiggett Quintet for a unique multimedia jazz performance that connects audiences emotionally to the realities of climate change and carries a message of hope. You may have attended "The Alaska Suite" concert by the same composer in 2023, they are back for a second tour with an all new concert! This performance utilizes the lens of birds to tell the climate story.

Hosted by Local 20/20 and Olympic Climate Action, with a Port Angeles concert happening at 2 pm that day (see L2020.org/forthebirds for details on both concerts, and to purchase your ticket.)

Suggested Donation $10 – $20 / Students $5.

Schedule:

  • 6:00 - Jefferson PUD: energy efficiency opportunities and rebates

  • 6:15 - Frederickson Electric: electrification (heat pumps, EV chargers, solar)

  • 6:30 - Powertrip Solar: solar benefits & how it meshes with the PNW grid

  • 7:00 - Concert

  • 8:30 - Information tables

Location: Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave, Port Townsend

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Nov
15

Port Angeles: For the Birds Multimedia Climate Concert

Olympic Climate Action and Local 20/20 are hosting the “For the Birds” multimedia climate jazz concert that connects audiences emotionally to the realities of climate change and carries a message of hope. You may have attended "The Alaska Suite" concert by the same composer in 2023, they are back for a second tour with an all new concert! This performance utilizes the lens of birds to tell the climate story.

The Port Angeles concert will be preceded by a talk by avian ecologist Bob Boekelheide at 1:30 pm, and the concert will be from 2 - 3:30 pm.. There will also be a Port Townsend concert happening at 7 pm that day. See L2020.org/forthebirds for details on both concerts and to purchase your ticket.

Location: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E Lopez Ave., Port Angeles

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Nov
13

Salmon Summit 2025 Open House

The free open house is an opportunity for anyone to learn more about Nooksack salmon status and recovery via non-technical presentations and dialogue.

This event is free to attend but registration is required so that an appropriate amount of appetizers can be provided.

**The associated conference is at capacity and registrations are no longer being accepted. Please contact Cheryl Lovato Niles at clniles@wsu.edu to be added to a waiting list for the conference.

Location: Four Points Hotel & Conference Center, Bellingham, WA

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Nov
8

Volunteer Planting with NOSC

Help the North Olympic Salmon Coalition plant native trees and shrubs at the Salmon Creek Wildlife Area. Learn more and register HERE. (You can help prepare for this event by barerooting plants the day before, November 7th, in Chimacum. Learn more HERE.)

Location: Salmon Creek Wildlife Area

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Nov
4

Community Forest Training Program

The Trust for Public Land is offering a five-month (November through March, once a month) virtual workshop series around best practices to support the creation and stewardship of community forests. Learn more and register HERE.

Location: Virtual, register for link

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Oct
27

CCAP Fall 2025 Quarterly Public Meeting

The draft Comprehensive Climate Action Plan (CCAP) is available!

Learn more about the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan and get involved! For more information and to register for the October 27 meeting, visit waclimatepartnership.org

Read the draft report, submit comments through the Public Comment Form, or find other ways to get involved at https://waclimatepartnership.org/en/get-involved/

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Oct
18

Orca Recovery Day Planting Event (Jefferson County)

Celebrate Orca Recovery Day by joining the Jefferson County Conservation District and the North Olympic Salmon Coalition for a planting event at Salmon Creek Wildlife Area! Carpooling is encouraged. Please bring gloves, water, and snacks. Learn more and RSVP HERE.

Location: 321 West Uncas Road, Port Townsend, WA 98368

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