KEEPING UP WITH THE HANSONS

I’ve participated in multiple surveys of small woodland owners over the years, and each time we ask the question “why do you own forestland,” the

There is a 28 year-old Douglas-fir plantation on my family’s Bucoda tract that was established following clearcutting by the previous owner. The trees have grown into a deep, dark, primordial atmosphere, characteristic of densely canopied conifer stands, that belies the otherwise innocent nature of such a young and artificially simple forest.

A reoccurring revelation breaks on me anew nearly every time I spend an appreciable amount of time in the forest; one that renders me mute and pondering in stunned silence: the forest provides everything we need to sustain our lives. Food, medicine, shelter, clothing, tools, and right livelihood

A running list of fungi I’ve documented in my family’s forests.

When you learn everything that’s edible in the forest, it’s really hard to starve to death. Michael Pilarski Foraging for wild edibles on my family’s

My family recently bought a new tract of forestland near Bucoda, WA about five miles north of the town of Centralia. The land straddles a