Upon arriving at Kit Ellis’s property, your first greeters might be the symphony of a dozen singing amphibians. “That would probably be the chorus frogs,” Kit says with a smile. At her forest in Gig Harbor, chorus frogs (or the ‘Pacific treefrog’), are one of many species Kit stewards. This month, we sat down with FSC certified forest landowner and NNRG board member Kit Ellis to learn how insights from her family’s 70 years of forest stewardship have informed her evolving approach to restoration.
Legacy
Sometimes a couch tells the story
Over the past year my father built a set of craftsman-style living room furniture for my family – a couch and two Morris chairs. This furniture is particularly significant as it was crafted from white oak that my father and I harvested from my family’s original woodlot in Minnesota many years ago. The logs […]