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 post-harvest monitoring for all active sites to evaluate the prescriptions’ effectiveness in creating desired forest and harvest outcomes. Also included in the monitoring program is the integration of students from forestry and watershed ecology programs at Peninsula College, Western Washington University, and Grays Harbor College, providing a field training lab and support in monitoring the OFC’s thinning projects. The Collaborative will continue to work with our field consultants Resilient Forestry and Olympic National Forest to grow this program, and communicate project results to stakeholders and the public.