Spring 2011 Newsletter - Bainbridge Island Land Trust

Bainbridge Island
Land Trust
Trustworthy News Volume 22, #1 Spring 2011
Maypole fun for all ages at our May Day Hilltop event. Photo © Asha Rehnberg
May Day at Hilltop
by Asha Rehnberg
The weather was glorious for BILT’s May
Day at Hilltop public event. Approximately
400 people, many grinning and blinking in
the bright sunshine, came out to see what the Land
Trust has on the horizon. BILT threw a party on this
still-private 31-acre property, located between the
Grand Forest East and West, to introduce Hilltop to the
community and to formally kick off our fund raising
campaign to acquire it.
May Day could not have been nicer. Groups gathered
at remote trailheads and walked in to the property
from many directions with Land Trust guides, or
followed the signs temporarily erected to show the
way. Others took free shuttle buses from parking at
Woodward and
Ordway Schools
to the Mandus
Olson trailhead,
where a short
stroll up the
private, forestVolunteer Hilltop Event Coordinaflanked driveway tors, left to right, Kathy Haskin,
brought them to Leslie Whalen, Barb Robert. Not
pictured, Babe Kehres, and Liz
the party, sunMurray. Photo © Asha Rehnberg
Continued on page 4
Notes from the Center
by Executive Director Asha Rehnberg
Let me tell you about a few of the coolest
things we have been up to that are not written about elsewhere in this newsletter.
a private party can take the
lead, becoming a “conservation buyer.” This was
the case recently when
First, a “conservation buyer” triumph: BILT has
Steve Romein and Ty
participated in many land acquisition projects. But
Cramer purchased the 19-acre Winney farm property
for every one that
on McDonald
comes to fruition
and Old Mill
there are many
Roads. This was
worthy properone of B.I.’s most
ties that we can’t
important and atbuy and which
risk agricultural
cannot, in their
properties. So in
current owner2010, I persuadship, be protected
ed Joe Winney
with a donated
to work with the
conservation
Land Trust as we
easement. Somesought to assemtimes the best
ble partners and
outcome results
devise a workfrom our bringable plan that
ing together the
would ensure
Looking east at open fields and farmstead (upper left) of Winney Farm,
land, people and
this property rerecently purchased by conservation buyers Steve Romein and Ty Craresources so that
mer. Photo © Asha Rehnberg
mains open and
Board of Directors
President - Tom Backer
Vice-president - Barry Fetterman
Treasurer - Emily Kehrberg
Secretary - Tom Goodlin
Bill Eckel, Thomas Fenwick
David Harrison, Kathy Haskin
Maryann Kirkby, Douglas Picha
Carol Sperling, Jim Thrash
Val Tollefson, John van den Meerendonk
Executive Director - Asha Rehnberg
Stewardship Director - Brenda Padgham
Membership & Development Director - Laura O’Mara
Administrative Assistant - Susanne Schneider
AmeriCorps Intern Stewardship Coordinator - Jacob Dyste
THANK YOU to the NEWSLETTER PRODUCTION CREW:
Jane Lindley, Paula Elliot, Asha Rehnberg, Jacob Dyste, Laura O’Mara
and the authors and photographers credited throughout this publication.
Bainbridge Island Land Trust
P.O. Box 10144
221 Winslow Way West, #103
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Tel: 206-842-1216 - Fax: 206-855-9241
Web: www.bi-landtrust.org
www.hilltopnow.org
Credits
BILT logo art: Nate Thomas
Hilltop logo art: Farrah Ferguson (Butter Design)
Bainbridge Island Land Trust is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation and a member of One Call for All
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available for agriculture. We are grateful to Joe, to the
Friends of the Farms, and most of all to Steve Romein
and Ty Cramer, for their respective parts in making
the recent conservation buyer purchase happen. Ty
and Steve are now working with BILT on an agricultural conservation easement that will permanently protect the Winney Farm’s tillable fields and pasture land.
They are also working with Friends of the Farms and
others to get the farm back into operation, to house
From the President
by Tom Backer
While spring has
been ever so slow
to arrive this year,
your Land Trust
Board and staff
have gotten off
to a quick start in
2011.
The Hilltop fundraising campaign is in full swing, after the successful public kick-off event on May 1. We
look forward to involving you in this excellent project.
Joe Winney and Projects Committee member
Sallie Maron stride N/NE across fields of Winney
Farm (neighboring Countryman stable in upper
left). Photo © Asha Rehnberg
farming interns, and to link this working farm with
the educational programming at the Blakely Elementary School.
And as if that weren’t enough, Steve and Ty are also
working with the Land Trust on a second farm conservation easement, this one to protect the 6-acre Pederson Farm, also on Old Mill.
And finally, the Land Trust is partnering with the
Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
and Keep Gazzam Wild (Grow Gazzam and Save
Gazzam Lake) to help the District acquire undeveloped lands adjacent to the west boundary of Gazzam
Lake Preserve. These parcels are very close to the lake
itself. Adding these lands to the Preserve will buffer
the lake, eliminate the possibility
of a road cutting through the Preserve, and protect the surrounding
wildlife habitat from disturbance
and degradation.
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We continue to move toward becoming a nationally
accredited Land Trust. We are updating our policies
and procedures to ensure that we comply with the latest Land Trust Alliance standards and practices, and
we are on track to apply for accreditation later this
year.
We are working on more than a half-dozen new conservation easements, and we hope to have several of
them in place before the end of the year.
We continue to steward and protect conserved lands
on the island. Recently, we successfully resolved an
action in Superior Court to enforce the terms of one
of our conservation easements. While legal action is
never our preferred approach, we are pleased that the
court upheld the terms of our conservation easement,
including the right to restoration and recovery of
costs. We anticipate restoring this property sometime
this fall.
Overall, it looks like 2011 will be a very busy year for
your Land Trust.
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Annual Meeting Highlights
by Paula Elliot
Fondly billed as “the best potluck on
Bainbridge,” the BILT 2011 Annual Meeting was held on Friday, February 4th, at
St. Cecelia Parish’s Conger Hall. During
the social portion, the local string band
Agate Pass played, and the silent auction
raised $2,625 dollars.
Executive Director Asha Rehnberg welcomed those in attendance, and introduced this year’s speaker, Mike Ryherd.
He was one of the founding directors of
the Land Trust, and the guy who once
upon a time proudly ran a cider press at Willowbrook
Farm. At his “day job,” Mike was an extremely effective state lobbyist for numerous environmental agencies, and last fall was presented the “Joan Thomas
Life Time Achievement Award” for environmental and
preservation advocacy by the Washington Wildlife and
Recreation Coalition. Now retired in Olympia, Mike
is remembered as a president of the Land Trust, and
as a donor of one of the first conservation easements
granted to BILT. He also helped to secure funding to
establish Pritchard Park, the Grand Forest, and IslandWood, among other much-loved places.
Mike’s remarks kept alive the legends of Bainbridge
land preservation. “Twenty years ago this fall,” he
said, “the people of this little Island community . . .
voted by 82% to tax themselves” to save what is now
the Grand Forest. Mike went on to tell listeners that
those 1991 bonds will be paid off this year. He also
recalled that the Grand Forest was named by a 4th
grader, Ben Bellieu (now 29), who won a naming contest sponsored by the Parks Department.
Mike urged Ben’s generation to continue the founders’
efforts to protect the natural lands of our Island home.
On this Grand Forest anniversary, we echo his call
and hope that all Island households will help support
the Land Trust’s current parkland acquisition project,
Hilltop, which will bind the separate segments of the
Grand Forest into one even grander whole.
May Day at Hilltop - Continued from page 1.
Forest Fairy, Anneli Freeman, and her mother, Minna,
on a Hilltop tour. Photo © Brenda Padgham
shine and Olympic mountain views in Hilltop’s 5+
acre meadow.
After arriving, many folks took guided tours of Hilltop itself, including a loop through the property’s
shady bottomlands and pond-side trails. Down there,
amidst the mature cedar and fir, the trunks of big
leaf maples sport a fringe of licorice ferns and there
were broad sweeps of trillium and bleeding hearts in
bloom. If you missed this opportunity or would like to
show Hilltop to some friends, just call the Land Trust
office to schedule a tour. But please, for the moment
the property is still privately owned, so don’t visit it
without permission.
Those gathered in the meadow on May Day, both
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May Day at Hilltop - Continued from previous page.
Photo © Larry Pluimer
young and old, soaked up the sun while enjoying the
eclectic tunes of Agate Pass and trying out a variety
of activities. Many danced the maypole (with sometimes hilarious results), had their faces painted, played
games, or made May day hats or other crafts. Some
rode a horse or pony courtesy of Dawn ComstockAckerman of Whispering Sunrise Farm. Some
gathered to hear stories about the history of the Hilltop Tree Farm from David Hedderly-Smith, son of
50+ year Hilltop resident Prudence Trudgian. Many
gathered to see the raptors and corvids brought by
reps of the West Sound Wildlife Shelter. Most sooner
or later enjoyed lunch provided by J’aime Les Crepes
and Emmy’s Vege House, or simply sat back, sipping
a Grand Forest Mocha from Treehouse Espresso or
nibbling a “BILT” frosted sugar cookie from My Kids’
Cookies. And, thankfully, many stopped by the Land
Trust booth to hear more about our effort to acquire
this spectacular property for parkland and to find out
how they could help.
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The BILT Board and staff would
like to thank the amazing volunteers who planned and organized this event: Barb Robert,
Kathy Haskin, Babe Kehres, Liz
Murray and Leslie Whalen; the
crew who worked for weeks to
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prepare the site for the party, including Kip Bankart,
Kent Scott, Zach Anderson, Don Mayer, Tom Cunningham and Jacob Dyste; Peterson Landscaping for
their donation of wood chips for our new loop trail;
Jim Thrash, who trained several dozen tour leaders; Sustainable
Bainbridge and
their Zero Waste
Initiative for their
help; and the much
larger group of
volunteers who led
tours, helped set
up, run and clean up
after this event. And
most of all we’d like
to thank you, our
members and community, for coming
Top photo: Board Member Val
out on May Day,
Tollefson. Bottom photo: Board
or on another day
Members Bill Eckel and Jim
Thrash - all at the May Day Hillyet to come, to see
top event.
what the Land Trust
Photos © Asha Rehnberg
has on the horizon.
Please read more about how you can help make this
proposed parkland acquisition a reality by visiting
www.hilltopnow.org.
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by Paul Brians
B r u c e H e dde r ly -S m i th
When Arthur and Prudence HedderleySmith bought 80 acres of land off Mandus
Olson Road in 1952, it was covered with
gigantic stumps and a stand of young Christmas trees. Their
son Bruce—who still lives on part of the original property
with his wife Carole—said they had to dynamite old firstgrowth tree stumps as much as eight feet in diameter to clear
the area for the small prefabricated cedar log house they
erected in 1954 as a summer vacation home.
From the hilltop vantage point of their house they could see
across to the Olympic Mountain Range, but eventually the firs
in the former Christmas tree farm grew up to enclose them in
the woods.
In 1958 they moved permanently from Seattle to the island,
intending to farm. Their son Bruce remembers his father
saying “In ten years this will be a working farm,” thinking he
would retire from building boats at that point.
The family was fond of riding, and
had several horses which were kept
in a barn they built by hand with
logs felled on the property. In those
days, you could ride horseback on
trails paralleling Highway 305 all
the way from Winslow to Agate
Pass.
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it so much he majored in livestock production at Washington
State University in Pullman on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. During vacations he would return to Bainbridge, working for a while at a strawberry-canning plant located where the
Pavilion is now. He especially remembers packing 55-gallon
drums with sugared strawberries for Kraft Foods.
Not all farm work was fun. Bruce particularly disliked pulling
the tusks of young pigs and castrating cattle and sheep.
In 1966 his father died, and upon graduation Bruce was sent to
Vietnam. Half of the property had to be sold off to pay off various debts and taxes, and the cattle were sold to Ivar Haglund.
This turn of events meant that Bruce could not fulfill his
dream of becoming a farmer, and when he left the Air Force
in 1974 he began instead a successful career selling tools and
machines, including robots for factory assembly lines..
But his mother was strongly attached to the remaining property, and allowed it to grow up undisturbed into the forested
area surrounding a 5-acre meadow
(used as horse pasture) that it is
today. Prudence was passionate
about preserving the natural life on
the land. Bruce remembers being
scolded for disturbing a compost
heap by playing in it, and being
cautioned not to pick wild trilliums. She made grape jelly out of
Oregon grapes; but the kids didn’t
have the patience to gather enough
huckleberries to make jam, instead
eating them straight off the bush.
“The Hilltop property, BILT’s
latest parkland acquisition project, is a wonder at first sight.
But the land also has a rich history not so apparent to the eye,
including as a beloved family
farm. We wanted to capture
some of that history and share
the story with you.”
The family also kept sheep and
pigs, and eventually went into
the business of raising beef cattle
as breeding stock. Their farming
activities were confined to growing
vegetables and fruit for their own
consumption and raising forage
for the animals on land they leased
from the Nakata family and others.
Because they had an abundant supply of manure, they were organic farmers from the beginning.
They systematically restored soil exhausted by many years of
strawberry farming by planting clover and other crops.
In a swampy area near the property boundary they dug a pond
to be used for irrigation. Bruce remembers one particularly
bitterly cold winter day when he had to wheel a huge tank
down to the frozen pond, chop a hole in it, pump the tank full
of water for the animals, and haul it back up the hill, only to
have the whole load spilled by an over-eager cow. On warmer
days, the kids would enjoy swimming in the chilly water of
the pond.
Prudence, who eventually remarried to become Pru Trudgian, was
an outspoken foe of a plan to build
an antiballistic missile site in the
area. Many people urged her to sell
the property to developers, but she
always resisted the idea. After her death, her children (Bruce
and David Hedderly-Smith and Arlayne Peterson) agreed to
honor her memory by working with the Land Trust to preserve
undeveloped the remaining 31 acres.
Bruce cares deeply about the rural character of Bainbridge and
deplores the rampant development that has transformed much
of the Island. Trails created by his family now wind through
much of the Grand Forest, and he looks forward to the Land
Trust being able to at last unite the two forest parcels with the
family property which he has enjoyed for so many years. “I’ve
forgotten a lot of things,” he says, “but not seeing the sunsets
from our front yard, and riding out in the pastures.”
There was plenty of hard work on the farm, but Bruce enjoyed
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How high is Hilltop? The $3.6 million cost of this ambitious parkland
acquisition project is one measure of the height. To get to the top is going to
require a strong team effort. Every Bainbridge Island family should want to be
on this team, and share in its success.
Why Hilltop? Acquisition of this critically located 31-acre property, a missing
link in our previously conserved lands, will bind together nearly 540 acres of
public parks, trails and other already permanently protected conservation lands
across the center of Bainbridge Island, and make possible a contiguous 290-acre
Grand Forest.
Why you? The opportunity to preserve Hilltop comes at a time when the burden of funding such acquisitions falls largely on private donors. Our project
partner, the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District, is doing everything it can to contribute public funds, but the majority of the acquisition cost
will have to be provided by us.
Why now? To save Hilltop for the public, your Land Trust must exercise its
purchase option by early September. Your generous donation or annual pledge
over the next five years is needed now. With your support ensured, we will
exercise that option with confidence.
How to Visit? Don’t miss the opportunity to tour this MUST SEE, still-private
property. Please call 842-1216 to sign up for a tour.
Donate or download a pledge form on-line at www.hilltopnow.org or www.bilandtrust.org, mail your donation or pledge to Bainbridge Island Land Trust,
PO Box 10144, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, or drop your check or pledge at
the Marge Williams Center, 221 Winslow Way West, #103, and say hi!
Thanks.
Hilltop Campaign co-chairs, Val Tollefson and Carol Sperling
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J a c o b D y s te –
S te w a r ds h i p C o o r di n a to r / A m e r i C o r ps I n te r n
by Cindy Vandersluis
and the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation. Under the
leadership of former BILT board member Barb Trafton,
this program engages high
school students in three components of Land Trust work:
spring volunteer work parties
to remove invasive weeds from
conserved parklands; two paid
2-week long summer invasiveremoval sessions at Blakely
Harbor Park, which include
lunchtime educational presentations; and a fall restoration
planting party. There is space
for about 40 students in the
Corps. “Last year, about 2,000
trees were freed of ivy through
this program,” Jacob says. “It’s
great to be able to provide summer jobs and build an ongoing
program that will keep serving the
community.”
AmeriCorps intern Jacob Dyste tackles invasive
Scotch broom, along with BILT volunteers and
Weed Warriors, at Trust-protected Willowbrook
Farm. Photo © Brenda Padgham
Jacob Dyste has been a valuable addition to the Land Trust staff since coming
on board in October, 2010, and has been
responsible for heading up the training of volunteer land
stewards, with seven new stewards recruited this year.
These volunteers visit and monitor Trust-conserved properties annually and build relationships with landowners.
“They’re trained to watch for changes that occur, and how
to write reports following their annual visits to the properties,” says Jacob. This year‘s training included a talk by
local mushroom and fungus expert John Young.
Jacob has also been instrumental in recruiting and outreach
for the second program year of the Bainbridge Island Student Conservation Corps, a partnership between BILT, the
Park District and Sustainable Bainbridge, with additional
support provided by Bainbridge Community Foundation
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Jacob was born, raised,
and educated in the
Willamette Valley of
Oregon. He majored in
Environmental Studies at the University of
Oregon, focusing on
water resources. Most
recently, he worked
for the Bureau of
Land Management in
Wyoming, monitoring
soil and water quality.
“My parents were into
backpacking and skiing,
so I always enjoyed the
outdoors,” Jacob says.
“When I began working
at the BLM, I realized
there were ways to
work outside, help preserve those places that
I enjoy recreationally,
and make a difference.”
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Dyste): Students from the 2011 Student
Conservation Corps removing ivy from
trees at Blakely Harbor Park during a
spring volunteer weed pull.
Board member and volunteer Lead
Steward Barry Fetterman does battle with
broom at Willowbrook Farm easement.
In honor of our past board members,
this spring the Land Trust staff and
volunteers worked with the Bainbridge
Island Park District to plant 141 western
red cedar trees (donated by BILT). They
were planted along the new trail at the
Trust-protected 5-acre Kallgren Addition to the Ted Olson Nature Preserve.
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S h o r e li n e R es to r a ti o n D esi g n P r o j ec t U pda te
by Brenda Padgham
The Land Trust’s Powel Shoreline Restoration Design Project is nearing completion
after 15 months of site visits, assessment
of property conditions, examining different designs
for restoration alternatives and in-depth discussions
among stakeholders. A final design to restore the
nearshore and marine riparian area of this Trust-protected property has been agreed to by the stakeholders,
which will result in slightly over 1,500 linear feet of
shoreline restoration. The removal of bulkhead and
armoring, as well as riparian plantings with native
plants, are the focal areas of the design.
This project is funded by the state Salmon Recovery
Funding Board, with BILT as the project sponsor. The
engineered design was done by Coastal Geologic Services of Bellingham.
The Powel family sought advice from BILT several
years ago about shoreline protection alternatives other
than reconstructing their failing bulkheads. Subsequent discussions ultimately led to this design project.
The family has been very engaged throughout the entire process to ensure that the restoration goals of the
project are achieved in a manner that maintains their
ability to use and enjoy their property.
“Sometimes when you start on a well-intentioned project, a can of worms may open. In our case it was a can
of permits, potential culturally sensitive sites, rules
and regulations, old infrastructure, and some family
dynamics. However, with Brenda gently guiding us,
Jim and all his resources educating us, my family feels
this is a worthwhile undertaking. My hope is that this
project to remove the bulkheads where we can, and
restore native shoreline and habitat to our waterfront,
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will be an asset to local wildlife, and an encouragement to other waterfront property owners to reclaim,
where possible and feasible, the natural state of affairs their waterfront once was,” shares Babe Kehres,
Powel family member and resident on the shoreline
where the proposed restoration project is slated to occur.
Implementation
will take
place after
additional
funding is
secured.
Ann Powel, who was actively involved
Besides
in the project taking place on her propenhancing
erty, discusses elements of the restoranearshore
tion design with Doris Small, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
habitat, as
Photo © Brenda Padgham
restored
native vegetation matures along the shoreline buffer,
there will no longer be a need to maintain or repair
infrastructure.
Many thanks to the Powel family for their foresight in
seeking to restore the shoreline of their BILT conservation easement property. Thanks also to project
manager Jim Brennan of Washington Sea Grant, and
our stakeholders from the
Suquamish Tribe, Washington Department of Fish and
Wildlife, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, and City of
Bainbridge Island.
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van den Meerendonk’s Talents Enhance BILT Events
by Cindy Vandersluis
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His expertise was crucial this year to the resounding
success of BILT’s annual Native Plant Sale on May
16. Working with NPS co-chairs Maryann Kirkby and
Jane Wentworth, John helped put together a terrific list
of plants that included many new species, particularly
many varieties of ferns, never before offered. He was
also instrumental in providing dazzling botanical
decorations for BILT’s 2010
Preservation Partners Party.
“John designed an indoor
landscape and delivered and
arranged an amazing array
of large trees, shrubs,
and ferns,” says Deb
Fenwick, who planned
and hosted the event.
“He transformed the
Island School gym
into a lush landscape designed to
convey how special these places
are that the Land
Trust helps to
preserve.”
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In 1990, John founded Botanica, Inc., a landscape
consulting, design, and installation company.
Happy customers at the Native Plant Sale.
Photo © Paul Brians
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From 1985 through 1990, John was the Horticultural
and Grounds Superintendent at the Bloedel Reserve,
and still volunteers there for plant identification walks.
“It was really a fun and exciting time, working with
world-renowned landscape artists,” says John, who
grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, attended
school in Madison, and went on to join the Peace
Corps. “When I started there, the Bloedels were still
living on the property, and the first three years were
focused on getting the garden ready for the public–
–connecting the six components of the gardens and
bringing them together. Mr. Bloedel was interested in
the psychology of the relationship between man and
nature, and wanted to give people the opportunity to
be alone in nature when they visited.”
Pho
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John van den Meerendonk
A resident of
Bainbridge Island
since 1984, John
van den Meerendonk brings his
horticultural expertise to his role
on the Land Trust
Board.
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THANK YOU to our 2011 Volunteers (so far)*
Jay Abbott • Jamie Acker • Marc Adam • Demi Allen • Bruce Anderson • Vencie Anderson • Zach Anderson • Susan Andersson
• Tom Backer • Robbie Baker • Ed Bancroft • Kip Bankart • Perry Barrett • Donna Bartelink • Jackson Beall • Heather Beckman
• Len Beil • Sid and Andrea Bell • Ken Bennett • Maia Bentley • Ian Bentryn • Bart Berg • Peter Namvedt Best • Alison Bettles
• Chris Blair • Ali Blake • Mike Bonoff • Jim Brennan • Paul Brians • Katya Bridwell • Rich Brooks • Marci Burkle • Tom
Campbell • Dave Caudill • Frank Childers • Pam Childress • Laura Cloghessy • Matthew Coates • Dana Coggon • Rob Crichton •
Tom Croker • Lee Cross • Suellen Cunningham • Tom Cunningham • Jim Cutler • Greg Davidson • Natalie Davidson • Stephen Deines • Mike Derzon • Diggs Docter • Christina Doherty • Paul Dorn • Lyla Doyle • Brooke Drury • Helen Dunbar • Bill
Eckel • Mary Ann Eckel • George Economy • William Economy • Mary Eliasen • Paula Elliott • Arlan Elms • Theo Fehsenfeld •
Deborah Fenwick • Melissa Fenwick • Thomas Fenwick • Farrah Ferguson • Barry Fetterman • Jo Ann Fetterman • Lea Fetterman • Brian Fish • Colleen Fisher • Don Fisher • Ellen Fisher • Mike Fisher • Mark Follet • Maradel Gale • Taylor Gawlik • Billee
Gearheard • Greg Geehan • Jeff Geehan • George Gerdts • Harry Gibbons • Elliot Gitten • Jim Goldsworthy • Corinne Gooden •
Thomas Goodlin • Matthew Greenwood • LT Gurdjian-Clay • Dan Hamlin • Amy Jo Hanavan • Becca Hanson • Cynthia Harrison
• David Harrison • Edie Hartmann • Svend Hartmann • John Haskin • Kathy and John Haskin • Bob Haslanger • Edward Hawley
• David Hedderly-Smith • Craig Hobbs • Mark Hoffman • Sue Hylen • Glenda Inman • Kathleen Jennings • Stephen Jennings •
John Jewel • Jim Johannessen • Karl Johansen • Hannah, Jones • Jess Jordan • Nancy Karle • Craig Kehrberg • Emily Kehrberg •
Babe Kehres • Larry Kehres • Kaitlyn Kelly • Sean Kelly • Carol King • Maryann Kirkby • Rick Kirkby • Karen Klein • Darlene
Kordonowy • Marcia Lagerloef • Roberta Lang • Mark Larson • Dennis Lewarch • Aaron Lewis • Luca Lezzi • Jane Lindley
• Betsy Lyons • Andrea MacLenna • Sallie Maron • Jerry Matthews • Julie Matthews • Steve Matthews • Don Mayer • Linnea
Mayer • Mikhale McCarrel • Mike McCloud • Kim McCormick • Cestjon McFarland • James McMurray • Sabrina McNulty •
Cyndi Merritt • David Moen • Martha Monkman • Steve Morse • Jan Mulder • Marylou Murphy • Elizabeth Murray • Jane Myers
• Jane Leslie Newberry • Erin O’Hara • Bryn Olason • Tim O’Mara • Elissa Ostergaard • Sam Pappas • Stefan Paskell • Betsy
Peabody • Steve Peltin • Austin Perilstein • Kathy Peters • Cassie Picha • Doug Picha • Larry Pluimer • Ann Powel • Jake Powel •
Jeff Powel • Mike Powel • Joe Prater • Karena Prater • Robin Purcell • Robert Purser • Garnie Quitslund • Frances Ran • Marilyn
Rehnberg • Olaf Ribeiro • Barb Robert • Joseph Rochelle • Richard Rocksmith • Don Rooks • Roxann Vistocci • Deb Rudnick
• Alan Rudolph • Joyce Rudolph • Stan Rullman • Jo Schaffer • Charles Schmid • Emily Schneider • Mark Schneider • Sandy
Schubach • Tom Schworer • Kent Scott • Julie Skotheim • Max Skotheim • Doris Small • Cameron Snow • Carol Sperling • Dale
Sperling • Darsi St. Louis • Brian Stahl • Cameron Stahl • Tom Steckel • Evie Stege • George Stege • Roger Stewart • Marilyn
Stoknes • Haley Story • Frank Stowell • Jennifer Sutton • Hallie Swan • Lynn Swan • Jens Swenson • Mary Terry • John Thomas
• Dave Thorne • Kathleen Thorne • Ginger Thrash • Jim Thrash • Peg Tillery • Mary Ann Tollefson • Val Tollefson • Barbara
Trafton • Craig Trueblood • Wendy Tynder • John van den Meerendonk • Cindy Vandersluis • Roxann Vistocci • Connie Waddington • Joshua Webb • Jane Wentworth • Robert Weschler • Alan Westphal • Leslie, Whalen • Beth Wheeler • Eve Wiggins •
Wilcynski • Walker Willingham • Don Willott • Judi Wood-Swenson • Dallas Young • John Young • Barb Zimmer
* We’ve done our best to include all our 2011 volunteers through April. However, if you have inadvertently been omitted, please
give us a call so that we can be sure to thank you in our Fall newsletter.
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Thank You to the following
Fall/Winter 2010 Donors through One Call for A ll
(...whose names were not available to us in time to be included in our 2010 Annual Report.)
Marc and Nancy Adam • Jaye Albright • Dan and Harriet Alexander • Borgan and Kathy Anderson • Brian Anderson • Farris Anderson
• Rebecca Anderson • Bruce and Carolyn Appleton • Stephen and Laurie Arnold • Dana Ashton • Tom Backer and Jane Leslie Newberry • Ed and Lori Bancroft • Peter and Jill Bang-Knudsen • Bay Hay & Feed • Jonathan and Martha Bayley • Bruce Beall and Barbara Trafton • Rick and Amy Beckett • Lydia Beckman • Greg Bedinger and Jan Mulder • Charles and Susan Beek • Tom and Karen
Beierle • Len Beil and Stella Ley • Susan Berdan • Bart and Dana Berg • Ed Berschinski and Deb DeVlieger • Karl Beuschlein and
Barbara Deppe • Alan and Sarah Black • Grant and Inga Blackington • Jeff and Sue Braff • Bruce and Kirsten Branson-Meyer • Paul
Brians and Paula Elliot • Eric and Molly Brown • George Brown • Mary Buffington • Tom and Sarah Bullock • Deborah Bunn • Carolyn Burger • Robert and Sherry Burke • George and Delores Bussell • Ed and Claire Butler • Robert Butler • Craig and Jean Campbell
• Ruth Caron • Alexander Carroll • Jason Carroll • Eric Cederwall and Johanna Vander Stoep • Ann Cheng • Dick and Patty Christensen
• Jeff and Bonny Clark • Edward and Judith Cole-Martin • Neil Conaty • Sue Cooley • Bob Crissman • Tom and Luanne Croker • Richard and Phyllis Crooks • Leonora Cross • King and Lois Curtis • Wayne and Marcy Daley • Robert Bevan Dalton • Larry and Anna
Daniels • Jeremy and Lissa Dashe • Carol Ann Davidson and John Bonow • Christine S. Davis • David and Virginia Davison • Wendy
del Valle • Barbara Denk • Mike Derzon and Robin Supplee • Ken and Barb DeWitt • Robert and Sharon Dieterich • Diggs Docter •
Margaret Donaldson • Thomas and Nancy Downs • Constance Ducar • Doug and Kathy Dudgeon • Helen Dunbar • Kevin and Mary
Beth Dwyer • Bill Eckel • Anna Edmonds • Dr. Sherri Egashira • Ed and Joanne Ellis • Charles and Julie Everett • Simon and Rebecca
Ffitch • Margaret Fish • Don and Ellen Fisher • Elizabeth Fisher • Douglas Fleming and Cloantha Copass • Cameron and Donna Foster
• Kent and Kathrina Fredrickson • Robert Freimark and Elizabeth Hudson • Maradel Gale • Daniel Gallivan • Bruce and Susan Galloway • Denise Garcia • Tom and Joan Gardiner • Gregory and Kathy Geehan • Elliot Gitten and Laura Cloghessy • Jim Gleckler • Scott
Glendinning and Beverly Gimlin • Kathy and Kirk Godtfredsen • Thomas Goodlin and Cestjon McFarland • Fred and Willie Grimm •
Carl Haefling and Pamela Johnson • Roth Hafer • Bernard Hallet and Amy Jo Heyneman • Jewell Hanna • Steve and Janet Hannuksela
• John Harding • William and Carolyn Harper • David and Cynthia Harrison • John and Kathy Haskin • Chris Heinlein and Cindy
Howard-Gibbon • Kristin Henshaw • Don Heppenstall and Emily Mansfield • Craig and Mary Hobson • Robert and Debbie Hollyer •
David Hunting • Daniel and Kathleen Huxley • Pamela Irvine-Johnson • Randy Jahren and Valerie Loebs • George Jarecke and Nancy
Plant • Cheryl Jaszewski • Robert Jenness • Mary Jensen • Neil Johannsen and Hilary Hilscher • Doug and Jan Jonas • Jeff Julius and
Beverly Green • Robert and Judy Karr • Shelley Kaurin • Larry and Babe Kehres • Peter Kepler and Sheila Hughes • Bob and Karen
King • Maryann and Rick Kirkby • Dale and Susan Knell • Walter and Lisa Kniginyzky • John Knox • David and Frances Korten •
Monte and Dawna Kramer • Paul and Anne Kundtz • Janet Kutina • John and Lynn Lampe • Steve and Diane Landry • John and Jenny
Lange • Vincent and Karin Larson • Lee and Judi Leader • Janet A. Leo • Michael Leonard • Fritz Levy and Nancy Taylor • Risa M.
Lewellyn • Tad and Joyce Lhamon • Joanne Little • Dave and Ellie Low • Kyle and Susan Lukins • James and Sue MacFarlane • John
Malterner • John and Laurie Maltman • Richard and Betty Mancuso • Andy and Sallie Maron • John D. Marshall • Leslie Marshall and
Herb Hethcote • Joel and Kathy Matulys • Bill and Anna McClain • Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCloud • Dexter McCulloch and Karen
James • George and Donna McKinney • Franci and Malcolm McKinnon • Lynda McMaken and James Lagdon • Nina Meierding •
William Merz • Laurel Michael • Alan Miller and Carolyn Mitchell • Dan and Robin Miller • Robert Miller • Michael Milligan and
Jeanne E • Barbara Mills • John and Patty Minola • David Mitchell and Lisa Giles • David and Fran Moen • Carl and Doreen Morgan
• Clarence Moriwaki • Pegeen Mulhern • Charles and Florence Munat • Bill Nakao and Pamela Harrison • Larry Nazareth and Abigail
Reeder • Druse and Eva Neumann • Bruce Nitsche and Jo Wallace • Mel and Chris Noble • Kirk O’Donnell and Jennifer Watkins •
Bill and Carole O’Neill • Debra O’Sullivan • Patricia “Bitsy” Ostenson • William and Janet Pauli • Mauri Pelto and Marjorie Anderson
• Winifred Perkins • Michael Peterson and Lucinda Jacobs Peterson • Gary Phillips and Mary Tate-Phillips • Dr. Jeffrey W. Phillips •
Michael and Carin Piraino • Stephen Prentice and Martha Makosky • Reed Price and Jen Merrill • Joanna Pyle • David and Frances
Ran • Carmine Rau • Wenda Reid • Brian and Leslie Rice • Richard and Patricia Richards • Anthony and Julie Riely-Gibbons Re-Solve
• Duane and Phyllis Rimel • Julie A. Roake • Barbara Robbins • Jeff and Debra Robert • Joseph Rochelle and Mona Lydon-Rochelle
• Jessica Rockers • David and Sarah Roe • Mike and Ana Rosen • Sada Ross • Mary Anne Rossing • Dean and Pat Sampson • Chris
and Keri Schmit • Steven and Anne Schwager • Cynthia Sears and Frank Buxton • Morgan and Anne Seeley • Howard and Elizabeth
Sewell • Mark and Susan Shaffer • Dwight Shappell • Sam Sharar and Lynn Oliver • John and Marjorie Sharp • David Sheldon •
James and Jennie Sheldon • William and Sandra Shopes • Dave and Alice Shorett • Robin Simons • Michael and Julie Smith • Christopher and Cameron Snow • John D. Stahl and Darsi St. Louis • George and Evelyn Stege • Jill and Dean Sterrett • Annette Stollman
• Frank and Mary Stowell • Stephen Streufert and Lisa Foisy • Gary Sundem • Bruce and Karen Taft • Liz Taylor • Rick and Lisa
Thomas • Brooke Thompson • Janet Thompson • David and Kathleen Thorne • Carol Tice • Val and Mary Ann Tollefson • David Toren
and Marilynne Gardner • Carolyn Tull • Tim Tully • Michael and Alicia Uhlig • Jan van der Veen • Brad and Martha Vaughan • Garret
Veley and Angela Mansfield • Peter and Shelly Vosshall • Bill and Connie Waddington • Stuart and Brenda Wakeham • Trey Walker
and Mary Anderson • Lee and Daryce Walton • Heidi Watson • Tyler Weaver • Kate Webster • Scott and Ann Weigle • Bruce and Judith
Weiland • Robert Weschler • Jeff and Wendy Westerlund • Tim and Kathleen Weyand • Shirley and John Whitaker • Linda Whitehead
• Robert Whitley • Cole and Lois Williams • BJ Winship • Rich and Jackie Wood • Mary Woodward • Rodney and Joanne Wright •
Nancy Yeilding • James and Janet Young
See our website calendar at www.bi-landtrust.org for upcoming events.