My name is Norm, I love trees, and I’m a forester. Foresters love all the types of forests that exist, young, old, and in between. Trees are awesome. We love all the stuff they provide, such as shade, habitat, cleaner air, clean water, and yes, wood. We are not Romantics. We don’t confer pastoral sceneryContinue reading “The silence of the limbs”
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A Regulated Forest
This circa 1967 picture* is of Cliff Fago scaling (measuring logs to determine their net volume) old growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) logs. Cliff became the first permanent forest manager of Boggs Mountain State Forest (BMSF) in 1965. In 1967, he conducted the BMSF’s first timber sale to begin removal of the remaining old growth. ThreeContinue reading “A Regulated Forest”
Nullius in Verba 