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EARTH DAY EVENTS! Earth Day April 19th at Interpretive Center-
Join us at the Interpretive Center from 11:00 a.m. ‘til 1:00 p.m. Help clean up Old Mill Park, learn about rain gardens, keeping our bays & streams clean, storm drians and more! Go To for more information!.
April 24, 16th Annual Earth Day Work Party with CKHS students!!
Interpretive Center play dates, special events and festivals, work parties: check out the following pages for more information: Interpretive Center; Upcoming Events.
And the Award Goes To:  Tex Lewis CCTF Chairperson
Each year the Clear Creek Task Force gives the Paul Brittain Award to a deserving individual in the community. We are pleased as punch (something this person might say) to give the 2007 award to Tex Lewis, Chairperson of the Clear Creek Task Force. We are also happy to announce a new award to honor a group that has assisted and supported the trail corporately and as individual members.
That new award is called the Tex Lewis Award and it was presented to the Central Kitsap Kiwanis. The CK Kiwanis have, with all the other service organizations, been big Clear Creek Trail supporters: From Salmon in the Classroom, to guided trail walks, tree plantings, a riding mower, and adopting a section of the trail. The Central Kitsap Kiwanis Club are deserving and the first to be honored with this award. Thanks a million!!
 Randy Peterson has been with the Clear Creek Task Force from day one. A retired Coast Guard Captain, he wanted to get involved in his community and stopped by for a meeting 15 years ago. He never left.
In addition to being totally committed to the Task Force mission, Randy is a Jack of All Trades who takes care of almost all of the trail maintenance, and oversees all the construction. He is out on the trail daily doing everything from the small litter pick up and graffiti removal, to clearing vegetation and fallen trees. Continued... |
Are you.....   
One of these Faces? We are looking for more Clear Creek Task Force members and more volunteers! Maintenance is a BIG job and volunteers can be used to clean picnic tables and signs and cut the ever present scotch broom and blackberries! Volunteers are needed to help with special events and raising funds for the trail! Do you have some experience grant writing. Let us know! Join us and help us keep the jewel of a trail we have built, alive and well for generations to come in Silverdale. Email us at clearcreektrail@yahoo.com Join the Clear Creek Task Force!! |
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Meet Clear Creek
In 1993, Paul Brittain, a local businessman, decided something should, something could be done with the Clear Creek corridor and stream. In the middle of Kitsap county’s most rapidly developing commercial area, Silverdale, the stream and it’s riparian area needed to be preserved for future generations. The beautiful little stream, with it’s headwaters several miles north of Silverdale, arrives at a pleasant estuary and then drains into Dyes Inlet, part of the Puget Sound. Once meandering through
a quiet rural area, the stream had gone ignored in the boom of retail/commercial development that began in the late 1970’s in Silverdale. (Continue reading)
Meet the Clear Creek Task Force
The Clear Creek Task Force,formed in 1993. CCTF operates under the support of the former Kitsap Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) organization, now known as the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The Task Force is an alliance of Kitsap county citizens, businesses, groups and service organizations. The Clear Creek Task Force’s Mission (Continue reading)
Meet the Great Peninsula Conservancy
In 2000, four Land Trusts: Kitsap Land Trust, Indianola Land Trust, Hood Canal Land Trust and Peninsula Heritage Land Trust merged into the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The mission of the Great Peninsula Conservancy is to work to protect forever the rural landscapes, natural habitat and open spaces of the Great Peninsula region.GPC plays an important role in the Clear Creek Trail Project as the Task Force’s 501(c)(3) organization. It handles trail agreements; conservation, acquisition and stewardship of property easements and donations along the Clear Creek Corridor; and provides a governing/advisory role to the Task Force. The Great Peninsula Conservancy serves the entire Kitsap/Great Peninsula .
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