The Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Program provides a one page forest stewardship values template to help hone in on primary values and goals of owning our forest land. It also provides separate questions to answer in the 5 inch thick binder of materials from the first class. They...
Tonight, I started a 10 session course called the Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Program, offered in King County through the Washington State University Extension. We meet every Tuesday evening for up to 3 hours, and there is also a Saturday field trip to local private forested properties for...
We have a tree stump on our property that will perhaps make a good chainsaw carved chair someday, complete with view. I may keep some of the larger stumps from trees that get removed for any building site or solar access, to use for seats. We'll likely keep some other trees at half height to serve...
We completed our first home on the property: a tent. We selected a nice flat spot in the middle of the land, by the old Pacific yew and Douglas fir trees that Karen is standing between. It was very quiet and peaceful... Karen did not wear earplugs to sleep, for the first time in many years.
Today we met a land use planner and consultant who worked for Island County for many years before becoming a contract town planner for the Town of Coupeville (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and also working independently through his company. Nice guy, lots of good info. We laid out our general thoughts...
The forester pointed out the following native plant species on our property today: Douglas fir Grand fir Hemlock Pacific yew Madrone Alder Salal Rhododendron Oregon grape Sword fern Bracken fern Trailing blackberry Evergreen huckleberry Ocean spray Wild rose / Baldhip rose Salmonberry Honeysuckle