PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Land Trust will host a holiday open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
The open house will be at the land trust office at 1033 Lawrence St., in Port Townsend.
It will celebrate the accomplishments of 2016, land trust officials said.
Richard Tucker, land trust director, will provide baked goods and coffee.
In 2016, the group protected the Short Family Farm in Chimacum. The Short Farm is one of the largest active farms in Jefferson County at 254 acres and — now protected — cannot be subdivided or converted from agricultural use, the land trust said.
Currently much of those 254 acres is dedicated to grass for the farm’s grass-fed beef.
This year the group also added 9 acres to the already protected land around Snow Creek and four lots, or roughly a half acre, to the Quimper Wildlife Corridor.
These properties were bought using a community donations matching project.
The land trust is a private nonprofit that works with willing landowners to conserve wetlands, floodplains, farmlands and wildlife corridors while still allowing landowners to meet their financial goals, according to the Land Trust website at http://www.saveland.org/.
