Protect & Restore Your Habitat
What Can You Do?
(for all)
- Protect your habitat (#1 choice)
- Use the natural system to your advantage
- Enhance / rehabilitate your habitat
- Restore your property to “natural” conditions
- Implement sufficient and effective buffers and setbacks
- Install a natural landscape on your property
- Properly manage vegetation
- Improve drainage management on your property
(for shoreline landowners specifically)
- Use alternatives to shoreline armoring:
- Consider adding large wood (root balls attached)
- Consider using beach nourishment techniques
Who Can Help You?
- Lead Entities for Kitsap (East) Peninsula and Hood Canal
Contact Kathleen Peters 360-337-4679 for East Kitsap and Richard Brocksmith 360-531-2166 for Hood Canal - Mid Puget Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group
- Kitsap Conservation District; Contact Joy Garritone or 360-337-7171x13 if you are interested in protecting or restoring habitat on your property.
- Great Peninsula Conservancy; 360-373-3500, 866-373-3504 toll-free info@greatpeninsula.org if you are interested in preserving open space, working lands, and habitat forever.
- Kitsap Stream Team; Contact Stream Team Coordinator 360-337-4601 to become a Stream Team volunteer.
- Stillwaters Environmental Center
- PSP Puget Sound Shoreline Stewardship Guidebook (workshop handout)
- Department of Ecology Controlling Erosion Using Vegetation (workshop handout)
- Department of Ecology Managing Drainage on Coastal Bluffs (workshop handout)
- Department of Ecology Managing Vegetation on Coastal Slopes (workshop handout)
- Department of Ecology At Home With Wetlands: A Landowner’s Guidebook
- Washington Sea Grant Program
- NOAA Restoration Center