Pacific Northwest · Since 2003
We buy back forest. And hold it forever.
Canopy Collective acquires degraded forestland across Oregon and Washington, restores it with native species, and places it under conservation easements that outlive everyone reading this page.
As of May 2026
12,400
acres returned to native forest, across 47 parcels in the Coast Range, Cascades, and Olympic Peninsula.
1.4M
Trees planted
23
Species returned
Our mission
Forest is not a resource. It is a commons we hold for everyone next.
Most of the Pacific Northwest's old-growth forest is gone. What's left is fragmented, often privately owned, and almost always at risk of the next clearcut. We work in the gap — finding parcels that would otherwise be liquidated, buying them, restoring them, and holding them in perpetuity through conservation easements written to last.
01
We acquire
Cash purchases of degraded forestland in OR & WA, often outbidding timber REITs and developers.
02
We restore
Native replanting, road decommissioning, riparian buffers, invasive removal — over decades, not seasons.
03
We hold forever
Conservation easements drafted to survive every owner, every economy, every century.
Four programs · One ridge at a time
The work, in four parts.
Each program runs year-round, with crews on the ground in OR and WA. The four hand off to one another in sequence — but most of our parcels are in two or three at once.
01Acquisition
We buy degraded forestland — clearcuts, brownfields, ranch margins — and remove it from extractive use forever.
Acres acquired since 2003
12,400
02Restoration
We replant native species, decommission logging roads, and rebuild riparian buffers along salmon-bearing streams.
Native trees planted
1.4M
03Stewardship
We hold land in perpetuity. Long-term monitoring, prescribed burns, and partnership with tribal land managers.
Years of perpetual care
∞
04Education
Field schools for K–12, training programs for next-generation land managers, and policy work in Salem & Olympia.
Students through programs
2,847
Impact · Updated quarterly
Numbers that make the work legible.
We publish field-verified figures. The trees are counted. The acres are surveyed. The species returns are documented in agency reports we link to every quarter.
Acres in perpetual conservation
12,400
across 47 parcels in the Coast Range, Cascades, and Olympic Peninsula
Native trees planted
1.4million
Douglas fir, western red cedar, big-leaf maple, and 14 others
Species returned
23
including coho salmon, marbled murrelet, and Pacific giant salamander
Volunteer field hours
84,200
from 3,100 volunteers across the region since 2003
Acres in conservation, by year
Eight years of acquisition. Each new parcel survives every administration that follows.
Field Reports
Stories from the ridge.
The work is slow. The work is durable. We write back from the field every few weeks.
What a conservation easement actually does
A plain-language explainer of the legal instrument that holds 12,400 acres in perpetuity.
Theo Asher · 5 min
The fellowship cohort of 2025
Eight early-career practitioners, eighteen months, and the work that comes next.
Lupe Carrasco · 6 min
What the marbled murrelet tells us
A seabird that nests in old-growth canopy is the cleanest indicator we have. Its return is a verdict.
Dr. Nora Velez · 8 min
Upcoming
Volunteer days, field schools, fundraisers.
Most of our events are free. The fundraisers are not. Both keep the work going.
23
May
Saturday
Volunteer Day
Coast Range, OR
60 volunteers
Wilson River planting day
Spring planting on a 40-acre unit replanted from a 2018 clearcut. Crews work 9–3, lunch on the slash piles, ride home tired. We provide tools, gloves, and the long lecture about why we plant the way we plant. You provide boots and a willingness to be cold and wet.
Volunteer Day · Coast Range, OR
Free · lunch provided
12
June
Friday
Fundraiser
Portland, OR
320 guests
Spring benefit: A toast to twelve thousand acres
Our annual spring benefit. Dinner from Han Oak, Oregon wines, a short program with field reports from this year's restoration crews, and an honest pitch. No silent auction. No paddle raise. We trust you to give what you can give.
Fundraiser · Portland, OR
$185 · table $1,800
6–17
July
Mon–Fri
Field School
Olympic Peninsula, WA
24 students, grades 9–12
Summer field school — Session A
Two weeks residential. Students work alongside our restoration crews three days a week, attend lectures from working ecologists two days, and produce a final field report on a parcel of their choosing. Many of our fellows started here.
Field School · Olympic Peninsula, WA
$1,400 · need-based aid available
25
July
Saturday
Volunteer Day
Clallam County, WA
40 volunteers
Elwha Spur invasive removal
Pulling Himalayan blackberry and English ivy from a 540-acre acquisition near the Elwha River. Hot, scratchy work. We bring the loppers and the salve.
Volunteer Day · Clallam County, WA
Free · lunch provided
The Team
The people who do the work.
Fifteen staff and eleven crews. Most of us have been here at least ten years. None of us are in this for the next career move.
Partners & Supporters
We work with tribal nations, agencies, foundations, and businesses willing to put a ridge on the line.
None of this is solo work. Every acquisition involves agency co-counsel, every restoration plan is co-developed with the tribal nations whose ancestral lands we work on, and every dollar of program funding is matched by partners listed below.
Yakama Nation
Tribal
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Tribal
Quinault Indian Nation
Tribal
Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Tribal
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Agency
Washington DNR
Agency
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Agency
Bullitt Foundation
Foundation
Meyer Memorial Trust
Foundation
Wilburforce Foundation
Foundation
Oregon State University, College of Forestry
Academic
University of Washington, School of Environmental Sciences
Academic
Patagonia
Corporate
Stumptown Coffee
Corporate
Filson
Corporate
Salt & Straw
Corporate
The next ridge
We're closing on 1,400 acres in 2026. Help us hold the line.
Quarterly field report
The dispatch — every three months, from the field.
Acquisition closings, restoration milestones, what we’re seeing return. Four emails a year. Unsubscribe in one click.