Bearing Weight - Bearing Witness - Dear Grandchildren – I am writing this for you.  I am writing it in case, at some

Taking Care - The steady, driving February rain ponds down on my helmet.  The tenacious roar of the saw in my

Hands gripping the steering wheel, I steer the car through the intense rain and gathering dusk up the on ramp

Adapting to the Unexpected -  When this project was imagined and committed to back in 2019, conditions were significantly different than

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