2020 Winter/Spring Native Plant Sales
The winter wet season in the Pacific Northwest is an ideal time to plant young trees and native shrubs! Planting native trees and shrubs enhances forest biodiversity by providing habitat for wildlife and forage for pollinators. It’s also a great way connect to the land and increase your aesthetic and recreational appreciation for the forest.
Forestry for the Generations
Ayers’ Last Stand has roots that go four generations deep. When Matt Patton and his
The (Life and) Death Cycle of the Salmon
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If you’re hoping to spot salmon in the forest this season, a creek or river is your best bet. But if you limit your searches to fin-spotting at the water’s edge, you’re missing out on the full experience. Don’t forget to look to the trees.
Making a Good Co-Home
There’s a hint of expectation in the air around Lousignont Creek, located in the northern Oregon Coast Range.Sometime in the next two months, adult coho salmon will appear as if out of nowhere and struggle upstream in search of suitable gravel for spawning.
Pointing the Trees in the Right Direction
It isn’t always easy to watch trees come down during a thinning, but Paul and Peggy Butler are getting better at it the second time around.
Welcoming new staff to NNRG
With the turning of the seasons Northwest Natural Resource Group welcomes crunching leaves underfoot, bounties of forest fungi—and two new staff members!
Tackling Invasives Without Chemicals―But Not Without Help
Artemio and Edana Paz have lived on and cared for their forest outside of Springfield for over 50 years. This year for the first time they sought help controlling invasive weeds from a unique source.
Salem Workshop: Climate Adaptation Strategies for Pacific Northwest Forests
Climate change poses significant challenges for small forest owners in the Northwest. NNRG is hosting this workshop to help foresters and other land managers consider climate adaptation concepts and strategies in their management practices to meet their clients’ goals and sustain forests into the future.
Olympia Workshop: Climate Adaptation Strategies for Pacific Northwest Forests
Climate Adaptation Strategies for Pacific Northwest Forests What Natural Resource Professionals and Land Managers Need
Women in the Woods: Then and Now
Here we are at the beginning of National Women’s History Month, this Sunday is International Women’s Day (March 8th), and it feels like the right time to shout from the rooftops how important women are to sustaining healthy forests. That fact doesn’t change when March ends — so we promise not to stop shouting it!
Meet NNRG Forester Marcia Rosenquist!
This January NNRG was lucky enough to add Marcia Rosenquist to its forestry team. Marcia works with forest landowners to create ecological forest management plans based on their goals and objectives. She’s improving the health and resilience of Pacific Northwest forest land one small parcel at a time!
The Not-So-Open Road: Road Decommissioning at Ellsworth Creek Preserve
In forest systems, hydrology and road systems are at odds with one another. Water wants to run down slopes and
Workshop & Field Tour: Adaptive Restoration at Stossel Creek
Join NNRG, the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, and partners for a workshop and forest tour focused on climate-adapted forest restoration for Pacific Northwest forests.
Out With the Fir, In With the Oak
Sarah Deumling has noticed some changes in her forest over the past 20 years.
There’s a little less water to go around, and her family’s land, Zena Forest in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, is a little hotter and drier during the summer. Why? These changes are consistent with climate models’ predictions of the way Oregon climate is shifting under the influence of global warming.
Keeping an Eye on the Back 40
Regular, rigorous monitoring is an important part of good forest stewardship. No one knows this better than Chris Goodman. Chris
2019 Accomplishments By the Numbers
2019 was a productive year for NNRG and the forests our members steward! We are so inspired by the landowners
2020 Winter/Spring Native Plant Sales
The winter wet season in the Pacific Northwest is an ideal time to plant young trees and native shrubs! Planting native trees and shrubs enhances forest biodiversity by providing habitat for wildlife and forage for pollinators. It’s also a great way connect to the land and increase your aesthetic and recreational appreciation for the forest.
