The Forest Stewardship Site Plan is a map of our property that includes both current and future projected forest/usage characteristics. It's one of the more important parts of a Forest Stewardship Plan since it tells a story and includes lots of information at a quick glance. I used Adobe...
Our land has the beginning characteristics of later old growth forest, though technically it may not occur on the site for another 500-1000 years. Forest succession is where a forest goes from post-disturbance bare ground to plants fighting to get higher than everything around...
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.