Peninsula Environmental

03/24/2025

The Northwest Straits Initiative posted a video of our virtual workshop held in February 2025. Check it out!

Please enjoy this recording of an educational workshop for contractors conducted on Zoom on February 7th, 2025. This workshop was focused on managing shorel...

02/24/2025

If you missed the others, we have two additional contractor workshops. One in Bellingham and another in Sequim. Uploading the Sequim workshop flyer soon.

01/23/2025

Sign up to learn more about shoreline vegetation! John Bornsworth is the lead instructor. 🌲🌲🌳🌊

International Society of Arboriculture Continuing Education credits (ISA CEUs) will be available for qualified professionals. Lunch will be provided. Stipends are available to those who qualify. 

01/05/2025

Radial trenching of a native Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii). This tree's soil was compacted from a machine driving under its branches for recent construction.

12/31/2024

12/07/2024

The Northwest Straits Foundation and Shore Friendly programs in northern Washington are hosting 5 professional workshops this spring focused on residential marine shoreline management. The workshops are intended for arborists, tree services, landscapers, bulkhead contractors and drainage contractors who work in marine shoreline environments. San Juan Island is the first, then Anacortes or Bellingham, Stanwood, Whidbey Island, and Sequim or Port Townsend. This first workshop is January 17th in Friday Harbor.

John Bornsworth is the lead presenter at these events, with additional presentations by local planners and Shore Friendly staff.

ISA and NALP CEU's pending.

10/26/2024

Found this interesting Rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia) in Winthrop a couple weeks ago. The foliage on every branch curled towards itself. Drought stress or genetic?

10/26/2024

The Port Angeles City Shade Tree program gave away a couple hundred Katsura trees (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) last weekend. Grew from seed in Shine Nursery! The old NPS Elwha nursery.

10/26/2024

Spotted 👀 another map I worked on at the City of Olympia, installed at LBA Woods Park! 📍🌲 🥾

I was at the park with my daughter and was pleasantly surprised to see this project came to completion with the hard work of Sarah Giannoble and Anna Uyeda after I left my position as senior designer and brand manager. It was a project that probably took two years start to finish with lots of thoughtful contemplation. This was definitely a team effort as it was the first stylized trail map for City parks integrating vector art, GIS mapping, accessible wayfinding, and interpretive sign elements. And, the first trail map of LBA woods! Now you can find your way! 🧭

Take a closer look at it, installed at trailheads around the park, and soon to be installed in a larger kiosk by the playground area.

I just love making maps and I’m grateful for all I learned in my time at the City about making accurate and visually appealing maps. Geography and map making has been a long time interest of mine and it was so cool to work with planners and GIS staff to make projects like these come to life.

09/13/2024

Are you a waterfront homeowner who wants to learn more about your shoreline? John Bornsworth is presenting an evening workshop on shoreline management in Arlington on September 26th, hosted by the Northwest Straits Foundation.

The workshop is in the evening, three hours long and intended for landowners.

Sig up here: https://nwstraitsfoundation.salsalabs.org/sept2024sflandownerworkshop

(Note, contractors and other professionals, there is another workshop in the works targeting you.)

07/16/2024

We are looking to hire an environmental/natural resources intern this summer to assist our team in conducting a forest inventory in the north Olympic.

20 to 30 hours a week on a straight forward forest protocol. Will be accompanied by experienced professional. Project is not qualifying timber but rather forest function.

Please email [email protected] for more information.