Saturday, July 30, 2016, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thornbush Farm, Friday Harbor
— from Julia Turney and Jay Lucas —
Many San Juan forests are overstocked and need ecologically-based thinning to be their healthiest! Join us for a walk in the woods and learn how to implement easy techniques to improve the economic and ecological value of your forest.
Don’t miss the chance to witness ecological forestry in action on a tour of Thornbush Farm, a working forest that hosts agroforestry plantings, biomass utilization, small-scale milling, and other examples of hands-on forest management practices. Along the way you will learn D-I-Y strategies for thinning your forest and using the thinned materials.
You will also learn about wildlife habitat and low impact logging techniques make diverse flora and fauna at home in your forest. Registration link for this free event is san-juans-diy.eventbrite.com
This enlightened perspective is sooo overdue. Congratulations to Thornbush, from our own forest on Obstruction Pass, where we’ve been on board, since 1992. Diversity, sustainability, forest health, bioremediation, biochar, habitat enhancement, all aligning to reset decades of biopropaganda from Smokey himself. Long time comin’. Thank you, thank you!
Who wants to do one of these on Orcas? :-) I’d go!