Kitsap Environmental Coalition

Kitsap Environmental Coalition:
A United Voice to Keep Kitsap Green

Your donation is a way to speak up for saving Kitsap County’s environment from over-development.

From our forests, wildlife habitat, shorelines, and rural areas to our urban parks, “green” defines Kitsap County. It’s the presence of tall trees, the coolness of fern-lined trails, the movement of water, and space for wildlife to thrive. 

But unmanaged and mismanaged commercial, residential, and recreational development, left unchallenged, will turn Kitsap County into something very different from the place we love and share. 

Kitsap Environmental Coalition (KEC) is the 100 % volunteer-driven voice for those who want to keep Kitsap Green. 

KEC is the only county-wide organization:

• Opposing runaway development that is threatening to turn our county into a sprawling suburb while irreversibly damaging our shared environment.
• Promoting thoughtful progress and growth that benefit all who live here while maintaining a balance of natural, rural, and urban areas.
• Saving the environment that makes Kitsap special and working to heal past damage. 

Your support will help us continue to:

• Raise awareness and empower our communities to protect their environments
• Advocate for the environment in front of local and county governments.
• When necessary, use litigation to ensure the laws, regulations, and processes protecting our environment are followed when decisions are made to bulldoze and build.
• Host KEC Presents, the free monthly film and discussions series at the Kingston Village Green covering a range of environmental issues relevant to Kitsap County.

Our recent work included:

• Advocating for reactivation of the state’s Trust Land Transfer program to preserve state lands and playing a major role in securing protection for the Eglon Forest ecosystems.
• Supporting the Kitsap Board of County Commissioner’s effort to protect state forest land on Green Mountain from clear-cutting and aggressive logging.
• Assisting community grassroots groups with professional legal and technical experts as they challenge excessive variances to wetland buffers and critical areas granted to developers.
• Watch-dogging proposed changes to the County’s Comprehensive Plan; Critical Areas Ordinance; and Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Plan and speaking up to ensure these guiding documents better protect the natural environment. 
• Bringing County staff and commissioners and seven other environmental nonprofits together to promote the idea of not only protecting the environment from future damage but restoring healthier ecosystems.

It's easy to get focused on things we don't want. We are increasingly focused on what we want: a county where people and nature thrive.

Visit our website at kitsapenvironmentalcoalition.org

Eglon Forest, north of KingstonCrabapple Creek Watershed, Appletree CoveLegacy Forest at Green Mountain