Gazzam Lake, Phase 3
Description:
The Gazzam II purchase on Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County provides direct connection to salt water access on Port Orchard Bay and provides enlarged protection adjacent to the wildlife corridor. Through the addition of two parcels, these 113 acres will provide public ownership to total 431 acres at Gazzam. This phase II purchase will enlarge protection for the fresh water fed category I wetland and related 26 wetland system, previously purchased in part with Urban Wildlife funding. The purchase now will benefit the site by providing land connection that link upland fresh water and salt water communities. On site vegetation is mixed coniferous and deciduous mature forest dominated by of Douglas-fir, western red cedar, western hemlock, red alder and big-leaf maple. The understory is thick and diverse with salal and huckleberry. Shoreline ownership here will benefit priority species including chinook, chum, steelhead, pink salmon and cutthroat. Purchase also affords area habitat for sandlance and surf smelt. Sediment and woody debris from the beach supports salmonid. In the upland area, site purchase protects priority species such as purple martin, bald eagle and pileated woodpecker. Numerous other song birds benefit from site purchase as well as neotropical migrant birds. The Gazzam II property enjoys support from the Suquamish Tribe, The Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Trout Unlimited, the Kitsap County Audubon Society and Washington Department of Wildlife, Region 6.
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Gazzam Lake, Phase 3
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The Gazzam II purchase on Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County provides direct connection to salt water access on Port Orchard Bay and provides enlarged protection adjacent to the wildlife corridor. Through the addition of two parcels, these 113 acres will provide public ownership to total 431 acres at Gazzam. This phase II purchase will enlarge protection for the fresh water fed category I wetland and related 26 wetland system, previously purchased in part with Urban Wildlife funding. The purchase now will benefit the site by providing land connection that link upland fresh water and salt water communities. On site vegetation is mixed coniferous and deciduous mature forest dominated by of Douglas-fir, western red cedar, western hemlock, red alder and big-leaf maple. The understory is thick and diverse with salal and huckleberry. Shoreline ownership here will benefit priority species including chinook, chum, steelhead, pink salmon and cutthroat. Purchase also affords area habitat for sandlance and surf smelt. Sediment and woody debris from the beach supports salmonid. In the upland area, site purchase protects priority species such as purple martin, bald eagle and pileated woodpecker. Numerous other song birds benefit from site purchase as well as neotropical migrant birds. The Gazzam II property enjoys support from the Suquamish Tribe, The Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Trout Unlimited, the Kitsap County Audubon Society and Washington Department of Wildlife, Region 6.
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From the Seattle - Bainbridge Ferry left at first light (Winslow Way) go one block and turn right onto Madison. At Wyatt make a left. Continue on Wyatt around Eagle Harbor and right onto Bucklin Hill Road, follow this road as it turns into Lynwood Center Road and right at Fletcher Bay - Miller Road. Then turn left at Marshall Road and continue to Blue Sky where on the left is the northern entrance to Gazzam Lake Park & Preserve. Walk west on the main trail, continue west where the trail forks and enter the property where there is entrance posting.
