KCT Trivia Pint Night is back. $10/trivia card suggested donation!

Join KCT at Stones Throw Brewery in Fairhaven for a night of group trivia themed "Protect Our Northwest Summers." Questions run from wildfire protection to climate preservation — test what you know, learn what you didn't, and grab a pint while you're at it. 10% of sales from 5–10 PM go straight to KCT's Saving Our Summers campaign.

Play with a team and share the bounty or go solo! No team -- we're happy to help find you one!

What we're raising for

This is the launch night of Saving Our Summers (SOS) — our 2026 campaign to turn a recurring wildfire crisis into a working climate solution.

Here's the problem: wildfire-prone woody waste piles up across our region with nowhere good to go. It gets burned in the open or left to rot. Either way, the carbon goes up, the smoke comes back every August, and the fire risk compounds.

We think there's a better ending for that wood.

Through KCT's Land Stewards Network, farmers, foresters, and orchardists across northwest Wahsington run flame-cap kilns that convert that same waste into biochar — a stable form of carbon that stays in the ground for centuries. One burn, three wins:

Less fuel on the land — roughly 4.5 tons of woody fire risk handled per burn
Carbon drawn down from the air — permanently, and verified
Richer soil for the farms that feed this region

The one-line version: controlled burn > uncontrolled burn.

Why now

Smoke isn't weather anymore — it's a symptom. Seattle-Tacoma now ranks 8th-worst among U.S. metro areas for short-term particle pollution, driven largely by wildfire smoke (American Lung Association, State of the Air 2026). A University of Washington study estimated ~92 excess deaths statewide from a single 13-day smoke episode (Liu et al., GeoHealth, 2021).

Washington has committed real money to catch up — but funding for prescribed fire and thinning was cut from $115M to $60M in the current two-year cycle. Meanwhile, DNR has treated barely half its 1.25-million-acre goal, out of 2.7 million acres rated unhealthy statewide.

That gap is where we work. And it's why a Monday night in Fairhaven actually matters.

Where we are already

99 practitioners trained and 13 community burns completed
Verified carbon credits issued on the Regen Registry
Active partnerships with Whatcom and Skagit Conservation Districts and Skagit Soils

The 2026 goal: $150,000

Year One of a five-year, $750,000 build toward a 40-node network:

$100,000 — Fund the Crew. The people and systems that make the network run: training, permitting support, carbon verification.
$50,000 — Kilns in the Ground. Five new kiln nodes at $10,000 each.

Saving Our Summers Trivia

Pint Night Fundraiser at Stones Throw Brewery