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Nature Counts! Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, April 13

Nature Counts!, a preparation for the City Nature Challenge, is the subject of the 2025 Environmental Conference, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at IslandWood.  

Register today at https://www.sustainablebainbridge.org/programs/biec/ 

This year’s Environmental Conference is a celebration of community science that engages, informs, and helps our community prepare for the upcoming City Nature Challenge (April 25-28). Connect with organizations dedicated to conservation, education and stewardship, and learn tools, techniques and scientific methods that will support your involvement with community science projects in our area. 

Megan Rohrssen of the Bainbridge Island Land Trust and Christina Woolf from IslandWood will present local projects that rely on community engagement to identify and monitor our natural ecosystems and resources. We will celebrate the community activism of a local couple receiving this year’s Environmentalist of the Year award, a […]

Nature Counts! Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, April 132025-03-18T17:39:08-07:00

Celebrate Earth Month in April

April is Celebrate Trees! Earth Month on Bainbridge Island

April is Earth Month on Bainbridge Island 2025! Celebrate with activities and events for all ages for Earth Day and Arbor Day during the entire month of April and beyond.

Sustainable Bainbridge, in partnership with many Bainbridge Island nonprofits, is hosting an incredible variety of opportunities, including weed pulls and work parties, Earth Day celebrations, free invasive weed disposal, and nature talks and walks. 

Earth Month events include the Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, “Nature Counts! Community Science on Bainbridge and Preparing for the City Nature Challenge”  (April 13 at IslandWood), and the community Earth Expo (April 26 at Battle Point Park).

Learn more at https://www.sustainablebainbridge.org/programs/earth-month. Take action every day as an individual, a family, or a group with our […]

Celebrate Earth Month in April2025-03-14T08:36:01-07:00

Foundation, Land Trust launch campaign to preserve Grand Forest East

The Bainbridge Island Land Trust with the support of the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation have launched a campaign to raise funds to protect 39 acres at Grand Forest East, allowing purchase by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.  

The Park District on February 21, 2025, announced its intent to purchase the property, contingent on a successful fundraising campaign. With negotiations now underway, the fundraising campaign, Stand for the Grand Forest, is expected to be over $2 million, said Cullen Brady, Executive Director, Bainbridge Island Land Trust. 

The Board of the Bainbridge Island School District voted to surplus the 39-acre property. 

“This is an urgent campaign,” Brady said. “The School District’s January 9, 2025, action to surplus and sell this property, among their first order of business in the new year, started the clock ticking. We need the community to […]

Foundation, Land Trust launch campaign to preserve Grand Forest East2025-03-24T14:49:25-07:00

Day of Remembrance stewardship at the Exclusion Memorial

Gratitude for all who turned out for the annual Day of Remembrance volunteer stewardship day at the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Feb. 19, in community with our Japanese American neighbors and in support of Bainbridge Island’s monument to civil rights at Pritchard Park.

Day of Remembrance stewardship at the Exclusion Memorial2025-02-20T14:44:17-08:00

Foundation, Land Trust to work with community to preserve 39 acres at Grand Forest East

The Bainbridge Island Land Trust and the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation acknowledge the recent announcement by the Bainbridge Island School District (BISD) that it plans to surplus its 39-acre property that functions as part of Grand Forest East parkland.

The Grand Forest nature complex is a treasured Bainbridge Island landscape, known for its interconnected trail network, intact forest core and vital natural habitats.

Recognizing the conservation and recreational value of this land, our organizations are united in our commitment to protect it permanently, ensuring that it remains undeveloped and accessible to the community for future generations.

On January 9, the School Board voted to surplus the 39-acre parcel. The Land Trust and Parks & Trails Foundation will work closely with the Bainbridge Island community, local leaders, and other stakeholders as we explore ways to safeguard this valuable resource.

We encourage everyone to join us in helping to conserve one of the Island’s […]

Foundation, Land Trust to work with community to preserve 39 acres at Grand Forest East2025-02-21T08:13:26-08:00

We join the No on I-2117 Coalition

The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation has joined the No on Initiative 2117 coalition, joining more than 500 Washington environmental groups, firefighters, small business owners, doctors, labor unions, Tribal Nations, farmers and more.  

Other local groups opposing I-2117 include the Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Sustainable Bainbridge, IslandWood, Puget Sound Restoration Fund, EcoAdapt, Friends of Little Manzanita Bay, Friends of the Farms, and Climate Action Bainbridge.  

Learn more about the No on I-2117 Coalition here: […]

We join the No on I-2117 Coalition2024-12-16T14:11:08-08:00

Lovely new entryway at Moritani Preserve

If a stroll through Moritani Preserve seems a little sunnier these days, well, it’s not just that summer is finally here.

Strategic thinning of over-dense stands of fir has opened the park to the gift of sunlight from above, and a budding of healthy new understory on the forest floor.

“When you look out, you can see spacing between the trees. Sunlight is filtering in through the canopy,” said Lydia Roush, Park Superintendent for Bainbridge Metro Parks. “There’s tons of new sword ferns regenerating, tons of new osoberry (Indian plumb) coming up already. It’s exactly what we want to see. It’s beautiful.”

Park District staff and volunteers replanted the preserve’s southeast entrance in June, supported by a grant from the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

Ferns, Oregon grape, bitter cherry, red flowering currant, mock orange, dogwood and kinnikinnick now line the entry path, along with a tumble of granite boulders. The path refresh […]

Lovely new entryway at Moritani Preserve2024-06-27T15:49:02-07:00

Weed-munching goats return to Blakely Harbor

Weed-munching goats are back at Blakely Harbor Park, for a week of environmental stewardship on the hoof funded by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

The herd some is deployed along the park’s south trail, there to suppress ivy, blackberry and other noxious weeds as only goats can: by eating them.

The herd from Vason-based Rent-a-Ruminant is comprised of “rescue” goats always eager to do their part for park restoration. The herd has worked Blakely Harbor Park several times in recent years, most recently munching invasive understory near the park meadow last summer.

The goats are one part of a progressive ecological restoration at the signature shoreline park. Student Conservation Corps, EarthCorps and year-round volunteer programs including the Parks & Trails Foundation’s ParksCorps follow the goats with weeding, mulching and other activities.

The goats are funded by a grant from the Parks & Trails Foundation. The grant will also fund reintroduction of native […]

Weed-munching goats return to Blakely Harbor2024-06-11T08:58:44-07:00

It’s Earth Month! Get involved with great activities

April is Earth Month on Bainbridge Island, and we’re proud to partner with Sustainable Bainbridge, Bainbridge Metro Parks and other great

See the full list of activities here, or find great ways to celebrate Earth Month below:

Earth care book displays, April 1-30, at the Bainbridge Public Library and Eagle Harbor Books – Learn more about individual and systemic actions that are restorative to a healthy planet by perusing and perhaps borrowing or buying books from the displays at the library and bookstore.

Prevent Food Waste display, April 1-15, Bainbridge Public Library – Food tossed in the trash is one of the biggest causes of methane emissions from landfills. Check out the lobby display case created by Kitsap Solid Waste for tips on making food last and using it up before it goes bad.

Attract Predatory Insects to Protect Your Garden, Tuesday, April 2, 6:30-8 pm on Zoom – Meet the many insects that protect […]

It’s Earth Month! Get involved with great activities2024-04-01T14:01:52-07:00

Join us for Superpowers of Our Parks & Trails

Dr. Howard Frumkin shares the “Superpowers of Our Parks and Trails” April 25, for youth, family health and wellness 

Our parks and trails deliver an astonishing range of physical and mental health benefits – and the science behind this nature-health connection has blossomed in recent years.   

Join us as Dr. Howard Frumkin presents “Superpowers of Our Parks and Trails,” a dynamic presentation for families and parents at 7 p.m. April 25 at the Bainbridge High School Theater. The event is co-sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation and Bainbridge Youth Services. 

Learn about the link between parks and positive health outcomes for those who use and enjoy them regularly. Sample the latest research, consider what this means for family lifestyle choices and broader policies, and explore ideas to integrate parks and trails time into our busy lives. 

The event is free, but […]

Join us for Superpowers of Our Parks & Trails2024-04-01T16:47:32-07:00

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