Here is the first video for you from the Sculpture Forest: Professional trail builder Eric Carabba of Backwoods Contracting quickly walks us through onsite progress and educates us on how the professionally done...
Professional trail builder Eric Carabba of Backwoods Contracting is making steady progress on constructing the park's trail system. He finished up the work requiring his small, maneuverable excavator and surface grader. From here, it is all hand work using hand tools for finish...
Today was a hard day to watch, though it was necessary. When designing the two loops of the main trails, it was intentionally routed so that only a few small 4 inch diameter trees had to be removed along the entire trail system. The trails work within the forest, and they continuously flow...
Thanks to the Whidbey News Times & South Whidbey Record for publishing a well done article about the current...
Trail building is underway at the Sculpture Forest. Professional trail builder Eric Carabba of Backwoods Contracting will be onsite for the entire month of May constructing the upcoming trails for the park. He has an extensive history with trail construction, land resource management,...
The Sculpture Forest is close to old Native American settlements and activity at Long Point and around Penn Cove. It is also near a potential Native American cemetery site. As such, the state Department of Archaeology...
The park has an extensive collection of native plants and trees throughout the property. May is especially colorful each year as the naturally occurring rhododendron plants open up in full pink and white bloom. They are spread throughout the forest, and they range in size from new growth to...
We have been working with a group of Seattle attorneys who specialize in the formation of nonprofits. They were excited about our project. One of the attorneys there even had a particular background and affinity for arts-based organizations. There were some complexities with our nonprofit...
Official construction and use permits were received from Island County to proceed with the sculpture park! The county team was enthusiastic about the project from the start, and they were helpful...
This week, I spent many hours getting wet and dirty in heavy bushwhacking throughout the park property, all in search of the best route for both the south walking trail loop and north walking trail loop. It was fun. Route finding for an ecosystem-oriented sculpture park requires a lot of thought...