[Supported by a grant from the TransAlta Centralia Coal Transition Board.] The idea first came to me when I was riding downhill from the Nisqually Community Forest with one of our foresters in his new Subaru Solterra, a small electric SUV. By the time we reached the flatlands, the dashboard gauge of the vehicle’s remaining […]
Seth Zuckerman
Read an Excerpt of our Book | A Forest of Your Own: The Pacific Northwest Handbook of Ecological Forestry
Co-authored by NNRG’s Executive Director Seth Zuckerman and Director of Forestry Kirk Hanson, and published by Mountaineers Books, the book is a “how-to” manual for forest owners that teaches them to notice the natural qualities of their land, decide how to care for it, and roll up their sleeves to keep it healthy for the […]
Longer Rotations and Carbon
It’s no secret that contemporary industrial timber practices fall short of realizing the potential of Pacific Northwest forests to sequester carbon. Whether it’s the allure of quick financial returns, the constraints of high discount rates, or the notion of fiduciary responsibility, most industrial owners west of the Cascades cut their evergreen forests soon after they […]
FSC®-Certified Wood Products Database Launched!
Even as the area of Forest Stewardship Council®-certified forestland in Washington and Oregon has grown, it hasn’t become any easier to find certified building materials in the Pacific Northwest. That difficulty was undermining one of certification’s main goals: to enable wood buyers to send a market signal to forest owners and foresters that says, “We […]