From Kirk Hanson, Director of Forestry Late last week I learned that the USDA is pausing funding for some Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) projects due to the uncertainty surrounding federal funding for the agency and its programs. Specifically, EQIP and CSP contracts that were funded through the Inflation […]
Kirk Hanson
To Thin, or Not to Thin
There is a 28 year-old Douglas-fir plantation on my family’s Bucoda tract that was established following clearcutting by the previous owner. The trees have grown into a deep, dark, primordial atmosphere, characteristic of densely canopied conifer stands, that belies the otherwise innocent nature of such a young and artificially simple forest.
Agroforestry Plantation of Culturally Significant Plants
A reoccurring revelation breaks on me anew nearly every time I spend an appreciable amount of time in the forest; one that renders me mute and pondering in stunned silence: the forest provides everything we need to sustain our lives. Food, medicine, shelter, clothing, tools, and right livelihood
HANSON FAMILY FOREST Fungi Pholio
A running list of fungi I’ve documented in my family’s forests.