Oregon Natural Forestry, LLC

05/08/2022

Getting ready for the next tree planting season. This year one of the planters, a retired high school teacher said, "tree planting saved my life." Planting a tree is just so fulfilling. Yes, it is a bit tiring, and you sleep well. We worked a reasonable amount of time not quite dawn to dusk, not even close to that.

03/27/2022

Sitka spruce seedling planted in the shade area of a stump. Some of the final comments at the recently completed Forest Health in Oregon 2022: State of the State where really telling, that many of our Oregon Forest heath problems now have an abiotic base. Heat, drought, wildfire, wind, ice, not getting cold enough are all influencing the Oregon forest landscape. It's not going to be good enough to do things the way they used to be done. Many of the presentations are available at this link, thank you Oregon State University: https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/cpe/forest-health-2022

03/20/2022

Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) flower just in time to mark the start of Spring. Aldercrest area, Tillamook County, Oregon

01/24/2022

Wilson River and big leaf maples, Tillamook County, Oregon (This is natural light)

09/07/2021

Tree reforestation survey. A time to see how the little trees did after summer heat and what is growing up around them. Here it is a western hemlock that looks ready to outgrow Himalayan blackberry.

01/10/2021

2021 NRCS focus areas just published where financial help may be available in select areas of Tillamook, Clatsop, Columbia and Yamhill Counties to improve forest health and increase biological and structural forest diversity.

If that sounds like to much, forest management plans are part of the funding too, which makes the rest much more understandable.

This Conservation Implementation Strategy (CIS) includes multiple counties in the North Coast and Lower Willamette Basins in Northwest Oregon. This strategy will assist landowners in restoring structural diversity to monoculture timber stands through the use of active management to thin stands, enco...

12/07/2020

After the wildfire what do you want your forest to look like? These trees are about 15 years old in the Tillamook State Forest. Some planning now can make a big difference latter.

11/17/2020

Pike Road Wildfire after the smoke. These little pieces of wood and other bits of organic material are now soils protection from raindrops falling without anything to intercept their impact. A solution to minimize erosion is the establishment of cover crops, mulch and erosion control practices.

11/07/2020

A basis to establish loss. Wildfire, hurricane, tornado or other sudden, unusual, unexpected event can change your forest in unintended ways. How have you established a basis to document what that loss is. Part of that are photos with basic forest information.

10/20/2020

Who knows what you will find in a tree until you look. Sitka spruce increment core and Sitka spruce uke top.

10/04/2020

Poison oak, rose and blackberry, sometimes it's not quite a picnic every day. Still pretty good though, must love being a forester.

08/24/2020

Cleaning the mud off the bottom of my boots to prevent the spread of invasive plant species. Sort of like masking up to prevent the spread of COVID.