The San Juan Preservation Trust is pleased to announce that the 30-acre Mt. Ben West Preserve on San Juan Island was permanently protected on March 31, when SJPT purchased the property. This milestone caps a decades-long conservation effort on the island’s west side and completes a “sea-to-summit” corridor connecting three preserves—the Conservation Land Bank’s Westside Preserve, the San Juan Preservation Trust’s Mt. Ben West Preserve, and the j…