Olivia Awbrey

In September, the Olympic Peninsula Resource Advisory Council (RAC) selected the Olympic Forest Collaborative (OFC) to receive $50,000 for the OFC’s forest thinning monitoring program. Projects are proposed to the RAC across five counties and the OFC project was awarded funding by the Clallam and Grays Harbor RAC sub-groups. The funding will allow the OFC to expand the monitoring program to complete pre- and

On April 20th, 2023 the Biden Administration released an Executive Order on Climate Resilience and began a public comment period for proposed rulemaking for federal forest and grassland management. The Collaborative collectively drafted a narrowly focused public comment letter which shares the group’s mission and goals of increasing the timber volume on the Olympic National

The Olympic Forest Collaborative is excited to share that it has been awarded the $50,000 Building Forest Partnerships grant from the Washington Department of Natural Resources to fund the coordinator position during the 2023-2025 biennium.  The Collaborative coordinator position continues to support the OFC by developing and maintaining key partnerships across the Peninsula and Washington

1/15/23 The Collaborative met in-person for the first time in three years at the Port Hadlock-Irondale Public Library in early January, where the group planned out their work and goals for the year. Members  renewed their committee positions are glad to have Jon Owen continue to Co-Chair the conservation caucus and Matt Comisky Co-Chair the timber caucus. In addition