Today I received the final signature page from the helpful DNR forester. So, it is now truly completed and ready to use with Island County and timber management programs. Yay Yippee Yahoo!!!
The National Wildlife Foundation's Backyard Wildlife Habitat program has helped many urban, suburban, and rural property owners think about how their own small part of the Earth can be a wildlife habitat and not just a yard for a house. It has been a fairly successful ongoing program, and acts as a...
Nice milestone this evening: I completed my Forest Stewardship Plan, the one that I started 6 months ago. Finally prioritized picking it back up again, and it feels good to be at this point. It's a healthy 26 page report, and I can say that going through the process of creating it was helpful on...
The Puget Sound LIDAR Consortium provides high resolution topographic data for land throughout Washington and especially the Puget Sound area. It is mostly of interest since it shows topographical...
I found a 1990 black and white satellite view of our property on Terraserver, which show US Geological Survey imagery. Interesting to see how little development was in the area just 18 years ago. Fortunately our area above Long Point is still mostly forested, but certainly less so than in these...
I participated in the three day Game Of Logging course in Oakville, emphasizing two days of tree felling technique and one day of yarding and bucking. It was a great learning experience and...