PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Land Trust will honor the Clallam Conservation District during its 10th annual Conservation Breakfast at 9 this morning.
The breakfast — which is complimentary with an RSVP — will be at Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. Donations will be accepted.
The conservation district has been awarded the 2018 Out Standing in the Field Award for its nearly six decades devoted to community and environmental health and sustainability.
Guest speaker Monica Dixon will explore the connections between community health and land conservation. Dixon is a national speaker, consultant, internationally published author and a founder of the Olympic Peninsula Healthy Community Coalition.
The Clallam Conservation District is the fifth partner to be awarded the Out Standing in the Field Award.
Past recipients include the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Jefferson Land Trust, Dick Goin (posthumously) and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and its Natural Resources Department.
To RSVP for the breakfast, visit https://north olympiclandtrust.org/ or call 360-417-1815.
For more information about the Clallam Conservation District, see http://clallamcd.org/or call 360-775-3747.
For more information about the land trust — which is devoted to conservation of open spaces, local food, local resources, healthy watersheds and recreational opportunities — see https://northolympiclandtrust.org/.
