​Giving Tuesday Now

On May 5th, we all will come together and support each other during these times.
For #GivingTuesdayNow, we want to hear from you. What are you missing about nature and outdoors this year? Feel free to a include a photo and any other message you want to share as well!

Email Carter at [email protected] with your message and we will add it below.

We hope you and your family are safe. Thanks for your support of The Kensington Conservancy during these times!
Share your act of generosity on the #GivingTuesdayNow map here.
This pandemic has changed us all.  We all miss the daily people contact (especially seeing the grandkids) and only travelling to the grocery stores when needed. Personally, I really miss seeing the wildlife when driving down the roads. The deer grazing on the TKC lawn, elks in the fields, turkeys gobbling and owls high up on poles. Someday soon we will hopefully get back to somewhat normal, so stay healthy and safe. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” - Aristotle

- Judy Brennen
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​Luckily, I've still be able to get out in nature lots this spring. Having two dogs to walk twice a day helps keep me outside and I live in an area with lots of roads and trails that go through a variety of habitats. What I do miss is being able to experience our amazing local biodiversity with friends and family, in person. It's just not the same when I see an interesting bird and have nobody with me to point it out to! If all goes well, maybe I will be able to bring some groups into the Black Hole Preserve later this summer or in the fall. If not, 2021 will have to do. 

​- Carter Dorscht

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This time of COVID-19 has kept me very isolated.  I have been at home now for 2 months. I have made two trips to the office and one car ride, but that is about it. I have watched the changing of the seasons so much closer than I ever have before. I have watched the birds at my feeders. I have watched the snow come and the snow go. I have seen weasels, squirrels and voles. I waited for the geese and sandhill cranes to return. Everything is suddenly alive with activity in nature. Sitting back to watch is the silver lining in a very scary cloud.

​- Tanna Elliott

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I've been reading about trees this spring, and although I am lucky to live in SW Montana, to be able to walk in our local state and federal public lands - and find beautiful huge old cedars and cottonwoods and Douglas firs - I am missing the trees I know in Desbarats country: The tiny jam-packed spruce, and the big old birches with chiga growing up them, and the huge old white pine that blew down by the road on the way towards Killaly Point. Oh and the really big old cedars on Portlock! And even the rascally porcupines waddling up the ramp away from me after munching on yet another birch, or the underside of the cabin....Every day starts beautifully wherever we are.

- Sally and Logan

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The biggest thing I am missing about nature and the outdoors is not being in Desbarats. I am missing the sights, sounds and sensations of not being there. I am missing watching the soaring Osprey, the feeling of the wind catching a sail, and the quiet dipping of a paddle going through the Black Hole.

​- Terry Haight