Vizualize Restoration
There’s a new story on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a story about organizations and communities that are restoring salmon to our streams and creating alternatives to clearcutting forests. LEO was created to help you see and learn about them. Take a look!
Our projects.
Chimacum Ridge
Chimacum Ridge rises between Center and Beaver Valleys, in the heart of Chimacum, amid a landscape of protected salmon streams, forests and farms. Chimacum Ridge is the biggest land acquisition planned by Jefferson Land Trust over the next five years.
Thorndyke Bay
The last pristine salt marsh on Hood Canal contains a wealth of habitat for threatened salmon species and other life. Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources hopes to acquire it to preserve it forever. Northwest Watershed Institute is helping to coordinate this initiative.
Quimper Lost Forest
In the fall of 2019, scientists from the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) completed a study of trees that have grown for centuries in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains. Ensuring that future generations inherit this living museum will leave a conservation legacy of lasting consequence.
Coyle Peninsula
The Coyle Peninsula forms the east side of Dabob Bay. Tucked away on some DNR land are patches of rare Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Huckleberry and Rhododendron Forest. Preserving this stretch of forest is a project of the Northwest Wetlands Institute.
Tarboo Creek
Since 2002, Northwest Wetlands Institute has been leading an innovative whole-watershed program to protect and restore the Tarboo watershed, from the headwaters of Tarboo Creek to Tarboo-Dabob Bay. The Tarboo Watershed provides an ideal location for salmon restoration efforts.
Duckabush River
This corridor along the Duckabush River protects important spawning and rearing habitat for endangered salmon and numerous other species that have relied on it for thousands of years. Jefferson Land Trust has been working for several years to protect and restore the river corridor.