Mushroom Workshop Fundraiser
If you’d like to learn more about foraging for mushrooms in the forest, you’ll want to attend Our Forest Fund’s “Fungi, Forage, Feast, Forest” mushrooming workshop and fundraiser on Oct […]
Category: Forest
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Paying for My Carbon Baggage
I was in the advanced stages of buying airline tickets for my around-the-world trip, when an uncomfortable thought crept cat-like into my consciousness. How was I going to tell my […]
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Scotch Broom Brigade Saturdays
There’s still more broom to tackle, so Our Forest Fund is sponsoring Scotch Broom Brigade Saturdays for the next 4 weeks! (4/30, 5/7,14,21) Meet up at 9am sharp at the […]
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Cut Broom in Bloom for Earth Day Weekend
Earth Day is right around the corner on April 22 – 24. Looking for an Earth Day project? Here’s a good one: cut back Scotch broom at Port Gamble Forest […]
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Plant Salvage Report
On March 25, 15 volunteers organized by Our Forest Fund’s Kim Greenwood met up at the Stottlemeyer trailhead of the Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park. They dug up approximately 400 […]
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Our Forest Fund Plants 500 Trees
Volunteers with Our Forest Fund have been busy planting cedars and white pines to diversify the former Douglas fir plantation which is now the Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park. By […]
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$300,000 Allocated to Save Port Gamble Trees!
Our Forest Fund is happy to report that thanks to Washington State Senator Christine Rolfes’ hard work, $300,000 has been allocated in the newly approved state budget specifically to buy […]
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Save the Understory: Volunteers Needed – Fri, 3/25
Our Forest Fund is sponsoring a plant salvage operation on Friday March 25, 2022. Work will be starting on the new parking lot at the Stottlemeyer trailhead of the PGFHP. […]
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Winter 2022 Update
No doubt you’ve been wondering how the campaign to save forests in Kitsap County is going. First, the money: to date we have raised over $32,500 from donations small and […]
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Treeline Video
Winter is upon us now, and maybe we do not get out into the forest as much as we normally do. Here is a terrific video about trees in snow […]
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133 Nations Sign to Save Forests
Nations from Albania and Andorra to Zambia and Zimbabwe – – including the United States and Canada – – have signed the “Declaration on Forests and Land Use” at the […]
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Save Forests for Carbon Storage
A recent Seattle Times front-page article by environment reporter Lynda V. Mapes points out that: “Nothing we currently know of works better than allowing trees to suck carbon from the […]
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A Quick Tutorial on Tree Biology
In case you’ve forgotten what you learned in middle school biology class, here’s a sparkly little refresher:
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Every Cut is More Lost Habitat
I think it is critically important that we preserve as much forest as we can because every cut leaves wildlife with less habitat. At some point there won’t be sufficient […]
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Dr. Nalini Nadkarni: Dancer in the Canopy
I came across this video while researching forest ecology. This tree-climbing professor of biology really expresses how vital forests are to our lives. She reminds us how the forest canopy […]