When it comes to absorbing massive amounts of carbon and locking it up for centuries, there’s no better place in the world than western Oregon to grow trees for a thousand years. In the first half of the 1800’s when European and Russian fur trappers first moved into this territory to start massive fires to… Continue reading What Are Climate Forests?
Author: Deane_RFPF
A New Writing Project
More than a dozen years ago I distributed business cards of an idea that was called: Carbon Conscious Forestry. I was searching for landowners who wanted to increase tree redundancy and the resultant forest resiliency with no kill methods like canopy pruning rather than logging. But back then the notion of evenly spaced trees that… Continue reading A New Writing Project
Tree Farms Vs. Crop Farms
Last Fall while attending a protest of the Crush Timber Sale on Washgington State lands I had a conversation with an older man about how tree farming is not good for hydrology and not good for carbon sequestration. He once was a wheat farmer in Eastern Washington and in my opinion knew more about growing… Continue reading Tree Farms Vs. Crop Farms
Crush Rebuttal
(click highlighted areas to view notes) November 29, 2021 Greetings. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources regarding the Crush timber sale in Capitol State Forest For the Crush timber sale, our South Puget Sound region staff thoroughly reviewed the sale area and found no… Continue reading Crush Rebuttal
Certifications & Credentials
As this website grows with the work of RFPF candidates, we will have many discussions about not just the development of curriculum for many different types of students of forest protection, but the process by which we also earn our many certifications that define the profession of forest protection. One certification at the top of… Continue reading Certifications & Credentials
Hello world!
What does a forester do? What is their authority in a global industrial complex of near always accelerating deforestation rates of primary forest? Or rather what is / does a forester do next? What are the next steps that goes beyond this failure of denying a fecundity of biodiversity? The inspiration for this website and… Continue reading Hello world!