Welcome – To write that “each day brings new uncertainties, challenges and disequilibrium” feels trite because hasn’t this always been

Setting to work on this first quarterly update, I find myself simultaneously excited and daunted. After playing catch up on

This interchange with visitors to the forests is common: Q: Do you think that the forests will eventually be influenced

The short version of the story goes like this:  From 2017 through 2023, Hyla Woods’ Mt. Richmond Forest continued to

Watching major die offs of our stands of thirty to forty year of firs, gave us more than pause.  There

“Perhaps the birds are just late in arriving this Spring? We’ve had that happen before”.  So, the conversation evolved

In this adventure of bearing witness to a decade in the forests, I have run into a challenge.  On the

Given that my aim here is to catch you up on happenings and changes that have shaped the forests – and

If the experience of joining me on this summarizing sweep through the changes that we’re experiencing in the forests

Beginning in 2025, this adventure in bearing witness to the decade will be captured and shared in periodic updates.  These