A is for Ability

How fast a forest grows and how well a forest is managed is to a great part about ability.  For these thoughts, it’s not about what you were born with, tree or person, but rather about potential.  Great athletic champions need coaching and training.

This being the Oregon Natural Forests blogspot, sees abundance in Oregon’s native forests.  Douglas-fir and Sitka spruce can grow to well over 200’ tall while western red cedar expands to thirty feet or more in diameter.  Rain, sun and fertile soils all combine to create a rich environment for tree and forest growth.  A tree and forests ability to grow often about opportunity and just finding enough space to do so.  Trees need room to grow big.

A forester’s ability is about desire and passion for the work nurtured and grown though coaching and training.  Instead of water, sun and soil it is about how well observe, orient, decide then act (OODA) are applied.  Then from success or failure what was learned, shared and improved upon.  Like a forest the forester has to be dynamic because what worked yesterday may not work today or in 40 years.  A is for ability.