Join us for our Fall Forestry Seminar with the topic " Keeping your forest as forest" We have an in person or virtual options. For more information please visit: www.watreefarm.org/event/save-t...

🌲📣 Looking for volunteers to staff WSSAF booth at the WA State Fair! Shifts are 3 hours and you get FREE ADMISSION + PARKING!

📅 Fair runs Aug 29–Sept 21 (closed Tuesdays & Sept 3)

📍 Sign up info: forestry.org/washington-o...

Let’s share our love for forestry with over a million fairgoers!

Found this mini garden on a fence post while mowing the yard.

Reminder to join us today 4/15 at 1pm eastern for a talk with Karin Tilberg, author of "Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine" foresthistory.org/education/fh...

#FlowerReport from my family's tree farm. These flowers are growing in the stand that was precommerically thinned about two years ago. The understory is responding nicely to the increased sunlight.

(2/2) In 2008, I knew holly was a problem and that data was needed to demonstrate that it was. I couldn't have imagined that my graduate research, 10 years later, would be used to support the listing. Kudos to everyone across the state who helped make this happen.

Seeing common holly finally on the Washington State Noxious Weed List is very gratifying, especially since it took three years to accomplish this. For my graduate research, I studied holly's distribution in forestland in eastern Grays Harbor County. (1/2)

As a way to cope through the next four years, I decided to build my vinyl collection. I already have Beatles albums that I inherited from my aunt.

Tree Planters' Notes 2024 fall issue is now available! Articles include using DayGlo to improve seed visibility, a review of paper-wrapped plugs, and black walnut in Vermont. www.fs.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

Submission deadline for fall 2025 issue is July 1. Reach out if interested in submitting.

I greatly enjoyed working with Forest Service researchers and district staff on the latest U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station's Science You Can Use bulletin that highlights the various methods in which biochar can be produced. research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/6... #Biochar

The 2025 "A Tour of Washington Forestry" calendars are being mailed out! Thank you to the tree farmers and Society of American Forester members for sharing their photographs that feature examples of sustainable forestry. Calendars are available at www.watreefarm.org.

The fall issue of the Western Forester has landed in mailboxes!
Featured is oak restoration in the Willamette Valley, the role of utility foresters managing the utility forest, and the PNASH Center's Bilingual Pesticide Labels for Reforestation Worker Safety project. forestry.org/western-fore...

Spent the morning picking a Hilltop Baldwin apple tree out in Oakville. Haven't made hard cider from this apple variety yet and am looking forward to testing a batch.

One question I would love an answer to is who throws coins out while they are driving. Usually I find pennies and nickels while running but today I found a half dollar. Did a double take to see it since it blended in with the gravel on the shoulder.