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Sharing Your Pride in Good WorkLook at what we are accomplishing together! As a team of concerned community members, we are saving salmon—the species most emblematic of Puget Sound. You make it possible for Pacific Northwesterners and visitors alike to be awed by their annual migration to the sea and back, and to marvel at the role they play in sustaining our region’s iconic orcas, eagles and bears. I hope you’re proud.

You are helping to re-create another wonder of the Pacific Northwest—an old growth forest—right here on the Great Peninsula. Undaunted by the centuries-long wait to achieve our prize, we will gently nudge Mother Nature along until a forest of massive trees provides sanctuary for marbled murrelets on 280-acre Grovers Creek Preserve. Aren’t you proud?

Many have dreamed of a fully restored, thriving Union River estuary at the toe of Hood Canal. You made the dream come true! Sweeping for five and a half miles, an unbroken expanse of marshy shoreline once again is a nursery for young salmon, and a haven for wintering ducks feasting on its bounty. That’s a lot of reasons to feel proud to be a GPC member.

The good work we do together restores a land of wonders. You are making an amazing impact for wildlife and people! Be proud!

Sandra Staples-BortnerExecutive Director

SAVING THE PLACES WE LOVE

Great Peninsula Conservancy protects evergreen forests, salmon streams, marine shorelines and community parks for wildlife and people.

WHERE WE WORKKitsap, Gig Harbor, Key Peninsulas and north Mason County, WA

Grovers Creek Preserve

Project Size: 280 acres

What You’ll Experience: A rare grove of 200-year-old sitka spruce, hemlock, cedar and fir supports a wide array of wildlife. You’ll see evidence of black bears and over 60 species of birds. A peat bog gives a spring to your step as you skirt its pools. Crossing Grovers Creek on a fallen log you’ll marvel at salmon and salamanders.

What We’re Doing: Creating a forest corridor for trails and wildlife habitat. Conserving and caring for this rare grove as it ages into an old growth forest. Protecting freshwater wetlands that ensure a year round flow of clean water into Miller Bay.

A Peek at Grovers Creek’s Wild SideUnder the forest canopy of Grovers Creek Preserve are wetland pools releasing a year-round flow of clean cold water, making this a critical habitat for threatened steelhead and a priority conservation project for GPC.

Hoping to find a wild run of steelhead in Grovers Creek, Trout Unlimited volunteers built an outmigration trap there in 2015. Their findings show an abundance of life: stickleback, lamprey, cutthroat trout, sculpin, crayfish, red-legged frogs, tadpoles, and salamanders, as well as large numbers of steelhead and coho salmon returning to these clean fresh waters to spawn.

“The good news,” reports Suquamish Tribe fisheries biologist Paul Dorn, “is these are all native species and we’re likely to see their numbers increase as instream barriers (like the recently replacedculvert at Miller Bay Road) are removedand more habitat isrestored andprotected.”

Conserving vibrant forests, streams, shorelines and community greenspaces helps wildlife and people thrive.Conserving vibrant forests, streams, shorelines and community greenspaces helps wildlife and people thrive.

CONSERVING NATURECONSERVING NATURE

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Project Timeline

1950sA 1450 foot farm dike was constructed to allow hay to grow on what was formerly a saltmarsh. Salmon and ducks lost critical habitat.

19737 acres of saltmarsh were filled to create a recreation site for the Beards Cove Community, resulting in a loss of habitat for fish and wildlife.

The Story of theUnion River EstuaryRestoration

Looking out over the wide expanse of Klingel Wetlands Wildlife Refuge you’ll see squiggly traces of tide channels and tracks of shorebirds, deer, and coyote. It’s hard to image that here once grazed cattle to feed a thriving early 20th century logging industry or, more recently, that families gathered here to swim and play on land created by diking and filling saltmarsh.

With the removal of 4,600 dump-truck loads of fill, Great Peninsula Conservancy’s restoration completes a much larger effort. Over three decades, an amazing 650 acres and 5.5 miles of shoreline have been conserved here, at the toe of Hood Canal. Great Peninsula Conservancy members now protect forever this final missing piece of the Union River estuary restoration, a bird watchers’ paradise.

Before

2015Beards Cove Shoreline Restoration - Damaged saltmarsh and tidelands were restored to historic conditions. The project removed 4,600 dump-truck loads of fill, restored side channels and original shoreline contours and planted native plants, shrubs, and trees.

2011Klingel Refuge Dike Removal - Old farm dike was removed, historic tidal channels were re-created and 13 acres of tidal marsh were reclaimed for fish and wildlife.

RESTORING NATURERESTORING NATURERestoring lands altered by human use gives a boost to wildlife and re-connects people to the land.Restoring lands altered by human use gives a boost to wildlife and re-connects people to the land.

Klingel Wetlands Wildlife Refuge

Project Size: 95 acres

What You’ll Experience: Visit the wildlife refuge and you’ll have a panoramic view of more than five miles of conserved shoreline at the toe of Hood Canal. This is a bird watchers’ paradise where one can spot an array of birds from bald eagles to heron, and green-winged teal to kingfishers.

What We’re Doing: Restoration at Klingel Wetlands Wildlife Refuge protects the Union River estuary and provides vital habitat to threatened Hood Canal summer chum, Puget Sound Chinook, and winter steelhead. The project completes a larger effort by many partners that has now conserved over 650 acres.

Getting There: The refuge is open to the public. Park and enter the preserve just behind Pat’s LIttle Red Barn Restaurant at 2091 WA-300, Belfair, WA.

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Cowling CreekForest PreserveProject Size: 31 acres

What You’ll Experience: Inside the preserve, elementary students release salmon and college students learn ecological principles. Stewardship volunteers just planted 400 saplings and you’re invited for salmon tours in November or to walk the preserve year round.

How To Get Involved: Programs at the preserve are hosted by Friends of Miller Bay, Great Peninsula Conservancy and the Suquamish Tribe. To volunteer contact Erik Pedersen, (360) 373-3500 or Erik@GreatPeninsula.org.

Getting There: The preserve is open to the public. Park at 20325 Miller Bay Road, Suquamish, WA.

Enriching lives by offering opportunities to experience nature close up.Enriching lives by offering opportunities to experience nature close up.

CONNECTINGPEOPLE TO NATURECONNECTINGPEOPLE TO NATURE

His Hair Stood on EndIt could happen to any volunteer. You head out with a bag of saplings to

replant the banks of the creek. As you clear the place where a new cedar sapling will one day tower, an awe-inspiring moment sneaks up on you.

“It was pretty wet,” remembered stewardship volunteer Dick D’Archangel. “As we worked in the

valley of Cowling Creek, we found these places above the stream, level areas full of salmon bones.” Following

the bones up the hill, they found one area, then another, then another, full of bones. “It made my hair stand on end!”

On the trails between the bones Dick found paw marks where bear had pulled themselves up the bank. “I had only read about this stuff!” Now he witnessed for himself how salmon and then bear bring nutrients from the sea, out of the stream, and into the forest.

2016 CONTRIBUTORSThanks to the generous individuals, foundations and businesses

who supported Great Peninsula Conservancy in 2016.

LEGACY SOCIETY AnonymousLinda BenedictElisabeth BondyMary Ann & Wayne C Booth, JrBarbara Gray BoydGail BronsonVirginia CowlingGary & Marilyn CunninghamDavid & Katherine De BruynJohn & Sarah DicksonMargaret ‘Kit’ EllisStephen Harris &

Susanne Waits-HarrisHitoshi & Alice Kawahara Jim & Mary KenneyBill & Bee MahanVerna MillerNancy NelsonRon & Bernadette OlsonGayle PeachDonna Cooper PeposGerald E PetersenStephen & Kathleen ReedLiami RollinsJoyce RussellToni SealesRon & Nancy SeftonGrace SemanSandra Staples-Bortner &

Brad BortnerFrank StutesmanBetty WillcombKaren Wylde

CONSERVATION LAND DONORSAnonymousMargret Bailey, Lucinda Eshleman

& Jennifer SchoenfeldOda Leota BeardKeith & Michelle BeebeLinda & Abner BergmanElroy & Margaret BohlinVella BoylesGail BronsonJudge Robert & Cathy BryanCharles BurrowClear Creek LLCAmory &

Betty Cook FamilyDavid CookFranklin &

Patricia Cooper Virginia CowlingIrene &

Tom DavisPhyllis Ellis

CONSERVANCY CIRCLE$200,000+Estate of Linda BenedictWA Recreation and

Conservation Office

$25,000+Wayne & Mary Ann BoothGary & Marilyn CunninghamEstate of James & Mary Kenney

$15,000+AnonymousKit EllisSuquamish Tribe

$10,000+Virginia DavisonDavid & Katherine De BruynJanine DolezelThe Morris FoundationREIJames E RodmanGreg & Dion Rurik

$7,500+Olympic Property GroupSound West Group

$5,000+Akridge-Peterson FoundationAlan & Sally BlackAlbert & Bridget FosterLand Trust AllianceKathy MahanEstate of Verna MillerGayle PeachSuzanne Tunney & James DePewUeland Foundation

$2,500+Wanda ButlerDeborah & Jerry EngelFriends of Miller BayAlice W HarrisKGI Watershed Council Lu Winsor

Memorial Environmental GrantNorth Kitsap Green Link Pass-

Through Fund at Kitsap Community Foundation

AY Petter Family Advised Fund at Kitsap Community Foundation

Port Gamble S’Klallam TribeSandra Staples-Bortner &

Brad BortnerPat & Steve Weagant

$1,500+AnonymousPhil & Karen BestCharles & Gail Bronson

Nancy & Dick D’ArchangelLaana & Barry FishmanMichael & Rebecca HallRuss Hartman & Sheri ThomasKitsap BankRollin & Mary MorfordNancy NelsonJohn H NelsonDuane & Betty PascoSealevel Bulkhead Builders, IncScott SilverTaylor Shellfish FarmsTRIFAM FoundationWaterman Mitigation Partners

$1,000+AnonymousAnjali Banerjee &

Joseph MachcinskiMichael BrownMark & Peggy BubenikKenneth & Betsy CooperTheresa CorlettPhilip & Karen CravenGene & Linda DanielsJohn & Susan DicksonCyndy & John DillonPaul & Linda DornSteve & Betty FabryNan FeaginRick & Kirsten FriedmanLawrence & LaVonne GreavesHeritage Distilling CompanyRobert & Caroline HoagTania IssaKristen KaneSara & Byron KaneKitsap Community FoundationKitsap VolkssportersKatrina & Lars KnutsonJohn & Patricia LantzChristine Larsen & Glen CooperBruce & Margo MacdonaldWilliam & Judy MatchettChuck McGuireRebecca & Doug MersonEllen & Alan NewbergDavid OvertonMercedes PetersonPete Philley & Monica ButlerSenator Phil & Anita RockefellerRich & Taffy SatterArt Schick & Barbara ReasonsKevin & Emily SchoenfelderRichard & Patti ShattuckRobert & Ethel StoryKen & Peggy VanBuskirkConnie WaddingtonBill & Sandra WalgrenJohn Willett

Robert Eriks & Gregory WildeSamuel & Ruth GreenThomas & Grace GriebelElsinor GrothGroup Health Coop of Puget SoundGeorge & Elaine HallDoug & John HeltonHolly HughesBrian, Donna & Dean JohnsenCapt. Donald & Dorothy JohnsonKen, Joel, & Karl KawaharaElizabeth KlingelRichard KnutsenSid & Jeanne KnutsonLand Title Company of

Kitsap CountyRobert Larson Elizabeth LayRobert & Nancy LindWilliam & Judy MatchettChuck & Dorris McGuireDick & Meryl MeyerMickelberry Owners’ AssociationJoseph & Margaret MillerRollin & Mary MorfordKirk & Lynn MortensenRon & Bernadette OlsonMargaret PadelfordGary & Celia ParrottThe Pinsch FamilyStephen & Kathleen ReedJames Richards & Lisa GordanierLiami RollinsJack & Ron SemanRobert & Elizabeth SmalserMary Stech & Peg WestSuquamish TribeMarge & Chuck ThorneChester WhitmanBetty WillcombBob Wiltermood &

Ann Nash Reisch

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Jan & John BloomquistJoel & Jill BolinElisabeth BondyPam Boyles & Roger JohnsonJudge Robert BryanSandra BurroughsLaura CarrollLee CarterJerry & Shannon ChildsJon & Loanna DayFrank & Beth DaytonDiehl Engineering IncTom & Mary Ellen DonnellyJaneen DorschMartin DreisbachSuzanne DroppertElly EricksonElizabeth EricksonEvergreen Mountain Bike AllianceBarbara FloydNancy GaringDarrell GeeRob Gelder & Bryan JohnsonAnthony GeorgeEvelyn GhiselinChristine GrenierDebbie GriffinBetha Gutsche & Tom StarrJohn & Barbara HagerJeff & Marcia HarrisJames & Carol HaskinsJulia HeimanGlenn K & June L Jarstad Family

Advised Fund at Kitsap Community Foundation

Bart Kale & AssociatesRoz KephartPat & Shelley KneipMerrill & Elizabeth KosterCasper Lane & Ellen SchiffErin Larsen-Cooper &

Erik PedersenJayne & Paul LarsonTodd & Denise LedinghamMark & Kris LibbyTor & Tiffany LinboVirgil MastelMichael MatzMark MaurenKen McCaffree

MEMBERS$750+AES ConsultantsEvan Bauder & Nichole MastelPeter & Joy Namtvedt BestBill BroughtonESA Engineering ServicesKitsap Home Builders FoundationPacific Asset ManagementKathleen & Andy PetersPort Madison EnterprisesBob & Gayle SedaFrank & Pat StricklinVic & Bonnie UlshVancil Law Offices PLLCClarke Whitney PS

$500+Admiral Theatre FoundationAnonymous (3)Linda Berry-Maraist &

Doug MaraistCharles & Yvonne BishopChuck CarlsonGary & Kris ChapmanRon & Mary Anne ClevelandJacqueline A CohnDon & Julie CoxEcological Land Services IncGlein Family FoundationGordon HallgrenAndrew HamiltonIngrid & Dennis HansenKate & Mike KroegerKonrad Liegel Attorney at LawMichael & Judy MaddoxJoyce MerkelSteve & Kathleen PolitakisErin & Bill ReetzLouis RichardTom RingoGary & Jeannette StiegelmeyerDorothy C WilsonJay Zischke

$250+Anonymous (3)Jill Bamburg & Nani BaranBruce & Tina Barner

Kevin & Lori McKennaKrista MixonSandra MowryMuller Family FundNorth Kitsap Trails AssociationMichael Orr & Robin HruskaDon PaulsonBen & Charlotte PedersenRoger W & Lynne E PrinceMindy RobertsJames & Elizabeth RohlfingJon RoseNadean RossTom SaulPaul & Kristy ScalettaSandra SchugrenIvan SedaRon & Nancy SeftonStafford & Barbara SmithMike & Jill SpiekerTerry StephensEvan StollJane StoneKent & Linda StreissguthWilliam TaylorJanet R Tracy & Gary R SmithCaryl & Gary UtigardCarolina & Nick VeenstraSteve & Rebekah VittoriSumiho & Yasuko WadaRandena WalshMark WalshLynn WhippleDon & Judy WillottBeth & Paul WilsonEd Wolfe & Wendy MilesYoung Family Fund at Greater

Tacoma Community Foundation

$100+Catherine AhlWalter & Guillerma AmosStephen & Sandra AndersonAnonymous (10)Tom & Ann AntosRepresentative Sherry AppletonJames & Anecita Ballou

Wendy & David BannonDr. Rick BarnerGary & Ginnie BauderBarbara BeagleBob & Jan BeckerAndy Becker & Donna FisherBill & Sonia BegertDorothy BensonLeif Bentsen & Elizabeth HuddleClaire BishopBo & Kay BlakeyAnna BorerGayle & Shirley BrewerDenise & Jeffrey BrownNatalie E BrysonMelissa BuckinghamMartha BurkeKathleen CallisonGail Campbell FergusonGerald & Patricia CarlisleCentral Valley Garden ClubChris & Linnea ConantFran CookRichard & Diane CooperAlain CrainMike & Becky DavisRobert & Anne DeLaneyMargaret Duncan & Bill BairdMark & Julie DuncanRobert & Angela EasterSteve & Marion EkbergMargaret EsolaErin & Anthony EwaldWilliam & Lori FaganPolly FeiglWilla A Fisher MDSteve & Mindy FohnBrenda FongRichard & Opal FordeLeonard ForsmanDavid FosterTom & June FreyGeorge & Rhoda GageFrank & Carol GarrattDave & Sue GitchJill GravunderSteven Green

Elliot GreggStephen & Kristine GrowdonRobert & Margaret HagerRichard & Sharon HankinsonHelp Desk CavalryKurt Hermanns & Rebeccah SproatDavid & Mary HerridgeWard HinrichsGretchen HodginsKim Hoffman & Thomas TearnenJulie & Brian HummBob Hunter

Linda & Dennis HutchinsonLindsey Johnson & Chris StoverKathy JoyceScott & Lyn JungeBill & Trish KampsErnie & Marilyn KarlstromRobert & Kimberly KeeverHolly Kennell & Martin BergBernadette KenworthyVictor KeranenPat & Daniel KirschbaumMary Catherine & James KolbMartha KonicekYvonne KrausDetlev & Gale KrollKate Kuhlman & Jim HalsteadPaul & Anne KundtzSheila C LallySteve & Julie LandauLiz LathropNoel & James LearyRob LindRalph & Dorothea LintzDavid LoceyWilliam & Teresa LooneyChuck & Beth LuceJohn MacDougallEdgar & Linda MarcuseCarl & Patricia MarrsMargaret & Charles MathissonSteve & Linda McAboyDuey & Virginia McBrideMary McClureThomas & Wendy McClure

Caitlin McIntyreRichard McNicholasDarrell & Janet MedcalfKol Medina & Elsa WatsonEllen & Paul MiddentsAdrian MillerJ Kurt & PL MondlochMonty & Eileen MontgomeryHarriet MooneyBobbie Moore & Walt ElliottMark MorganAllan Munro

Elizabeth MunschJohn & Nancy MuraoLouis & Sara NawrotRichard Nerf &

Judy Friedberg-NerfE MacArthur NoyesCarole & Roy OesterhausEmily OlsenBernadette & Ron OlsonMargaret PadelfordScott & Nancy PascoeC L & Patty PeccheninoJoseph PentheroudakisCherill M & David R PereraNancy Petersen & Joe LubischerJoan Phillips & Ric JonesJody & Dan PiperJohn PoppeBill PriceVennessa PustekSusan QuigleyDennis & Susan QuiringRichard & Jill RakeWilliam & Pamiel ReedEdna E (Ann) Reisch &

Bob WiltermoodJeff ReynoldsRobert RicklefsSenator Christine RolfesAlice Ann Rosello &

Harold R GoodellDana RosenbachWayne Roth & Kathleen AlcalaRoger & Athena RynoMay Jane Saveskie &

Bob Hungerford

Joan SaxtonMarion SchoenbacklerLynn & Mark SchornKathy SchubertVern & Jane SchueleinDave & Joanne Schuett-HamesDavid & Susan ScogginAlan Searle & Jerline CareyLuz & Romeo SerranoKenneth & Tanya ShawcroftSallie ShawlFrank & Myvanwy ShirleyLouise SkiptonMatt SlaneyRich Slettvet & Vickie MichelsRobert SmausRick & Janice SmithMaria Steinbeisser & Geoff CusterMelanie StewartLaurel StoneDaniel StoningtonThe Trust for Public LandMarge ThorneLarry Tuke & Brooke HealyBeth TurneyDeborah & Ted VaughnGordon & Sue WalgrenLauren Walsh & Scott NemethAnnette WanwigLoren A WassonLarry & Carol WatsonVicky WenzlauHerb & Joyce WernerMelinda & Paul WestPatti WibleCarolyn & David WileyBJ WilhiteJoel & Lucinda WingardSonny & Jane WoodwardDawn & Richard WoolseyThe Zabinski Family

$50+Karen & Kent AndersonKaren Andre & Ralph MansfieldAnonymous (6)Randy & Lindsey BabichRobert Banks

Ellen & Peter BarnettSteven & Joanne BartlettJohn & Maile BayRenee BellemereDan & Collette BoucherDoris & Burt BoydPeter & Marty BraunMarcia & Steven BrixeyBarbie BrookingPaul & Patricia BryanDeborah BuckHolly Bukes & David WemmerDennis & Betty CarpenterFrank CarseyAlan & Betty ChessmanSig & Bonnie ChreyNigel & Clare CooperScott J & Susan DabellGeorge & Sara Nell DavisPaul DietzSusan A DigbyWilliam & Ruth DrollingerJames EasterLee & Vicki EvansSuzanne FaganTim & Deborah FlynnJD & Jill FrancisDeborah GradySharon GriffinAlice & David GutscheShelley HagleCameron HaslamJack & Marsha HedgesNicole Hill & Nick WoodsonMelissa HolmesEvy HolsteinLynn HowatLisa & Mack JohnsonSophy C JohnstonMarilyn KarrDonna & Robert KelloggMary E KleinJames KresslerPatty & Doug LentSteven LewisMartin LundDavid MartensDoug & Jan McLemore

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Andrea McNamara DoylePam McPeek & Bill HalliganWilliam MerzPatty MichakLoyd & Sharon MillerJulie MillsBarney MottRobert & Frances MoyerMike MyersZephron G & Sarah B NewmarkDoru NicaThe Ozimek FamilyMichelle & David PeckDonald K PetersonBetty PinkertonPam & Rich PiperLorraine Irene PotterMayor Rob PutaansuuStephen ReedMichael RegisAsha RehnbergElinor RinglandHarry F & Inge M RoegnerMark Runions & Reni MoriartyLaura RyanBecky & Jim RyanDavid SalgeJanet SchennumRita SelinSteve Siegfried

Neil & Donna SimmonsChris & Ann SmithBob & Annie StevensonDavid Stockand &

Nancy ChamberleinFredric & Marilyn TausendDiana L TiongcoClark & Barb Van BogartAlex John & Dawn VirnigVictor VlistJay & Suzy WakefieldSue & Dave WardPatrick WatsonDavid WeikelRobert & Linda WelanderGeorge & Barbara WillockRaymond W WolberLora & Steve WoodKaren Wylde

<$50AmazonSmile FoundationAnonymous (10)Brandon BirdAnne BraudisGlenda BraunTherese ClementsRosemary CourtrightWilliam CrimbringMonnet Cummings

Joe DaccaEva DavisMitch and Jan DeRidderMary DorseyCarol EdwardsMerrill & Jacqueline EvansJaime ForsythCathy & Rick GundersonJoan HettRichard & Ida HillRebekah JohnsonMerry KogutToni KuresmanJohn & Wilberta LelleEdmunde Henry LewinFlorence LovelaceJames & Linda ManloveMarilyn MathisDoris E Mattson &

Marlene Y OrwilerKatha Miller-WinderLynne MorrisMargaret MorseNorman MundhenkDavid NelsonKassie OlmstedSarah ParringtonKevin S PeltoNiki QuesterJeffrey Quinn

Erin joined other community volunteers on Johnson South Sound Preserve to remove invasive scotch broom and plant over 250 trees to improve habitat for wildlife. Be part of caring for the land! Contact Erik@GreatPeninsula.org to become a stewardship volunteer.

Caring for protected lands ensures wildlife and people enjoy the many benefits of nature well into the future.

Caring for protected lands ensures wildlife and people enjoy the many benefits of nature well into the future.

CARING FOR NATURECARING FOR NATURE

PHOTOS: Cover: Don Paulson; p2, 3: Don Willott, Visit Kitsap Peninsula (map); p4, 5: Jeremy Stitt (center), Pat McCullough (bottom); p6: (top to bottom): Mary Zabinski, Don Paulson, Nancy D’Archangel; p7: Iklil Gregg Photography; p8: Kate Kuhlman, Mary Zabinski; p9: Don Willott; p10: Erik Pedersen; Back cover: Don Paulson

10 GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY

Justin ReederAndrea RoperAmy RoszakMaryann ScottRobin SigoFrank & Theresa StantonEd & Lori SternLaurie StoneMark StoutTom & Jackie TaylorLarry TellinghuisenBurt & Mary Jo TharpJudy TuttleNeal Van Der VoornChrilo Von GontardKurt WeagantVicky M & Murray C WebbRichard A WhiteLyolya WinsorCasey & Kelli WintersBev & Mike Yelverton

IN KIND CONTRIBUTORSB & A IncBishop, Cunningham & AndrewsBlue Sky PrintingFlamingo AudioTaylor Shellfish FarmsJoanne TejedaPat & Steve Weagant

ASSETS Cash & Cash Equivalents ..............................$319,384 Cash for Restricted Purposes ..........................214,068 Receivables ..................................................... 389,603 Prepaid Expenses .............................................. 13,370 Investments ...................................................1,017,977 Property & Equipment .................................7,456,650Total Assets .............................................. $9,411,052

LIABILITIES & NET ASSETSLIABILITIES Accrued Expenses ...........................................$13,362 Capital Lease ...................................................... 8,782Total Liabilities .............................................$22,144

NET ASSETS Unrestricted ................................................. $865,256 Temporarily Restricted .................................1,197,622 Permanently Restricted .............................. 7,326,030Total Net Assets ...................................... $9,388,908Total Liabilities & Net Assets .................... $9,411,052

REVENUE Contributions .............................................$1,095,578 In Kind Contributions ....................................... 14,481 Special Events ..................................................101,552 Interest ...............................................................19,138 Investment Income ...........................................30,977Total Revenue ...........................................$1,261,726

EXPENSES Program ........................................................ $685,942 Administration .................................................. 45,718 Fundraising .......................................................62,265Total Expenses ............................................$793,925

Change in net assets ....................................$467,801Net assets at beginning of year ................. $8,921,107Net assets at end of year .......................... $9,388,908

423 Pacific Ave., Suite 401Bremerton, WA 98337360-373-3500info@greatpeninsula.orgwww.greatpeninsula.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORSKathleen Peters, President, Bainbridge Island, 2017Arthur ‘Wes’ Larson, Vice President, Bremerton, 2019Kit Ellis, Secretary, Gig Harbor, 2017David De Bruyn, Treasurer, Kingston, 2017Arthur Schick, Past President, Brownsville, 2017Evan Bauder, Belfair, 2018Peter Namtvedt Best, Bainbridge Island, 2018Debbie Engel, Indianola, 2017Erin Ewald, Gig Harbor, 2018Russell Hartman, Bremerton, 2019Katrina Knutson, Gig Harbor, 2019David Morris, Gig Harbor, 2019Justin Stiefel, Gig Harbor, 2019Mark Walsh, Poulsbo, 2019

STAFFSandra Staples-Bortner, Executive DirectorKate Kuhlman, Operations DirectorJonathan Decker, Conservation DirectorErik Pedersen, Stewardship AssociateMary Zabinski, Development DirectorJessica Lessard, Development Associate

Editor – Sandra Staples-BortnerManaging Editor – Mary ZabinskiDesign Assistance – Jessica Lessard

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2016 FINANCES1

EVERY ACRE, EVERY MEMBER,EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS

1 These abbreviated financial statements are derived from fully annotated financial

statements audited by Aiken & Sanders, Inc., PS in whose opinion they “present

fairly”, in all material respects, the financial position of Great Peninsula Conservancy

for the year ended December 31, 2016.

EXPENSES

REVENUE

Program 86%

Administration6%

Fundraising8%

Contributions 87%

Great PeninsulaConservancy

In Kind Contributions 1%

Special Events 8%

Interest 1.5%

Investment Income 2.5%

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