P is for Planning
P is for planning. When it comes to forests and people there needs to be a plan. Because it takes a while for a forest to change you need to know where you are, where you want to get to and a plan of how to get there. At the most recent (October 2018) Tillamook High School Forestry Field Day I ran the compass and pacing event. Students from various high schools participated and the ones who did the best, stopped, thought about what they were going to do and then did it. The challenge in compass and pacing was that many of the course instructions were in different units of measurements, but once converted into a single a unit completing the course was pretty straightforward. A forest plan is not always so straightforward as there are many changing and dynamic forces at work. If you have not thought about your forest maybe now is the time to do so. If you wanted to thin the trees it takes awhile to find a logger that has time to do the work. If y...