Category Overview
Urban Wildlife Habitat projects fund close-to-home places to play and explore nature. As our urban areas are increasingly expanding and densifying, these grants protect important fish and wildlife habitat within five miles of densely populated areas, creating green refuges that help keep our ecosystems healthy and provide places to enjoy nature right in our backyards.
Project Highlights
The Quimper Wildlife Corridor Additions project sponsored by Jefferson Land Trust in Port Townsend, WA was able to acquire and permanently protect 33.81 acres across 22 properties. The Quimper Wildlife Corridor (QWC) project area is a native greenbelt within the City of Port Townsend made up of native forest and a series of paulstrine wetlands stretching across the North Quimper Peninsula. This conservation work protects water quality for the City of PT as well as conserves habitat for the smallest shrews and kinglets to bear and cougar. Jefferson Land Trust’s work, made possible by RCO Urban Wildlife funding has protected an essential recreation and educational trail corridor inside of the city against increasing encroaching residential development. Our grant funding made the acquisition of 33.81 acres possible, as well as necessary boundary surveys and a small demolition project. This project #20-1283 was the continuation of decades of work in the QWC by Jefferson Land Trust, the City of Port Townsend, Jefferson County, and countless conservation-minded landowners. This project continues under RCO project #22-1415!