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Programs

Four programs. One ridge at a time.

Acquisition, restoration, stewardship, and education — running year-round, often on the same parcels at the same time. Below: how each one works, what it costs, what it yields.

Quick jump

47

Active parcels

11

Crews in the field

16

Counties we work in

4

Tribal partners

Land team meeting at the edge of a forest parcel
01 · Acquisition

Acquisition

Acquisition is the first move. Our land team works with willing sellers — retiring timber families, estates, ranchers ready to retire — and competes against developers and timber REITs for parcels that would otherwise be cleared again. Every acre we acquire is placed under a conservation easement before the next planting season.

  • Cash purchase, no contingencies, 14-day close
  • Bargain sales structured for maximum donor tax benefit
  • Conservation easements drafted with WA & OR DNR co-counsel
  • Working with timber families on multi-generational legacy plans

Acres acquired since 2003

12,400

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Restoration crew planting native seedlings on a cleared slope
02 · Restoration

Restoration

Restoration is field work, year-round. Our crews plant Douglas fir, western red cedar, big-leaf maple, and a calibrated understory mix native to each watershed. We pull invasives — Himalayan blackberry, English ivy, scotch broom — by hand and chainsaw. We breach old logging roads and let creeks run their old courses again.

  • 1.4 million seedlings planted to date, 87% survival at year five
  • 62 miles of decommissioned logging road
  • 23 stream-restoration projects, 11 with active salmon return
  • Crews drawn from local watershed councils & tribal partners

Native trees planted

1.4M

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Stewardship lead walking a ridge line at first light
03 · Stewardship

Stewardship

Buying land and planting trees is the easy part. Stewardship is the hundred-year part. Every parcel we hold has a written stewardship plan with annual monitoring, fire management, wildlife surveys, and clear protocols for adaptive response as climate shifts the conditions on the ground.

  • Annual ecological monitoring on all 12,400 acres
  • Prescribed burn agreements with 4 tribal fire councils
  • Wildlife corridor mapping in partnership with USFWS
  • Climate-adaptive species selection guides updated yearly

Years of perpetual care

∞

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Field school students gathered for a lesson under canopy
04 · Education

Education

We run a residential field school for high school students in summer, a paid 18-month fellowship for early-career restoration practitioners, and a policy team that drafts land-use legislation for the Oregon and Washington legislatures. The work isn't done when the trees are in the ground — it's done when the next generation knows how to hold the line.

  • Field school: 2 weeks, residential, 24 students per session
  • Fellowship: 18 months, paid, restoration & policy track
  • Policy: 4 bills passed in OR & WA legislatures since 2019
  • Free curriculum library — 38 lesson plans, K–12

Students through programs

2,847

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How it fits together

One parcel, twenty years.

A single ridge will pass through all four programs over its first two decades — and stay in stewardship forever after.

  1. Year 0

    Acquisition

    Identify, negotiate, close. Conservation easement filed within 90 days of closing.

  2. Years 1–3

    Restoration phase 1

    Replanting, road decommissioning, riparian rebuild, invasive removal.

  3. Years 3–7

    Restoration phase 2

    Understory recovery, follow-on planting, first species returns documented.

  4. Years 7–20

    Active stewardship

    Annual monitoring, prescribed burns, climate-adaptive species adjustments.

  5. Year 20 →

    Perpetual care

    Quiet, monitored, intact. The forest does most of the work from here.