The Hanson Family Forest near Bucoda, WA is a 102-acre property that hosts a wide array of stand types ranging from newly established conifer plantations to young, naturally regenerated hardwood stands to 26-year-old Douglas-fir plantations. Two management challenges facing the forest owners include natural hardwood stands which are extremely dense and in a competitive exclusion phase, and newly established conifer plantations which are becoming overgrown with competing vegetation.