ITC Covenant Landowners Newsletter

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A newsletter for Islands Trust Conservancy Covenant Landowners  •  Spring 2020
Introducing ITC’s new Covenant 
Management and Outreach Specialist 
2020 marks Islands Trust Conservancy’s 30th anniversary.  
Over the past three decades, ITC has grown to protect 76 
conservation covenants across 14 islands — and counting.  
To keep pace with the number of protected areas in our care, 
we welcome the addition of a Covenant Management & 
Outreach Specialist to the Islands Trust Conservancy team. 
This increase in capacity will enable ITC to bring our annual 
monitoring work in house, better support covenant landown-
ers like you to achieve your conservation goals, and be proac-
tive with outreach to prospective covenant donors. 
We are pleased that Jemma Green, 
who was hired in 2019 to pilot 
the position, will be staying on 
in this role. Jemma’s background 
is in wildlife conservation and 
habitat restoration. She holds 
a BSc in Natural Resources 
Conservation (UBC) and an MSc 
in Environmental Studies (UVic). 
Jemma looks forward to being 
your point of contact for future 
covenant monitoring activities 
and ecosystem conservation 
projects. 
How can we support you better? Please complete 
our short online Communications and 
Engagement Questionnaire to let us know your 
preferred frequency and mode of contact, as well 
as whether you are interested in increasing your 
engagement with Islands Trust Conservancy. 
New covenant stewardship resources
Habitat Acquisition Trust’s 
(HAT) Gardening With Native 
Plants is an excellent guide to 
ecologically friendly landscap-
ing that is tailored to our 
Salish Sea bioregion. HAT’s 
latest publication for private 
landowners is a similarly help-
ful resource: Invasive Plants 
in Your Garden provides tips 
for identifying and removing 
19 of the most common 
invasive plants in our region. 
This guide also suggests aesthetically similar native plants to 
substitute (for example, substitute Spanish bluebells with one 
of the camas species, English hawthorn with black hawthorn, 
or periwinkle with woodland strawberry) and resources to 
consult for further information and support. By swapping 
invasive plants with native ones, we hope you’ll find that your 
landscaping is easier to maintain, more drought tolerant, and 
attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators.
Here at Islands Trust Conservancy, we’re hard at work 
developing online resources for covenant landholders and 
their neighbours. Those of you looking for guidance on 
protecting and maintaining the rare and highly endangered 
Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) forests on your land can look out 
for a Coastal Douglas-fir Forest Information sheet for your 
Local Trust Area, which will be published on our website and 
available for download later this spring. We are also excited 
to announce a new and improved Islands Trust Conservancy 
website, due for completion this fall.
Caring for your 
Conservation Covenant
Jemma Green, Islands Trust 
Co

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