Join two Coalition Partners this weekend at the Valley View Forest on the eastern Olympic Peninsula!

Jefferson Land Trust’s preserve manager and Northwest Natural Resource Group’s lead forester will lead a free tour of an actively managed lowland coniferous forest. Objectives for the 65-acre Valley View Forest include increasing forest resilience and improving structural and species diversity through commercial thinning, gap cuts, and creating wildlife habitat structures. As we walk through several treatment units, leaders will discuss the successes and challenges of planning and implementing ecological forestry practices and how we select trees for removal in a thinning.

Come prepared to walk up to 20 minutes at a time over trails and off-trail over rough terrain (not ADA accessible) through thinning and gap-cut treatment areas.