H to Z
H to Z
The H to Z project area is located just south of the Sol Duc River, approximately one mile down Cooper Ranch road from the intersection of Highway 101.
In 2016, Sierra Pacific Industries purchased the H to Z stewardship sale. Of the 116-acre unit, 76 acres of 65 to 70 year old trees were commercially thinned in 2016, which generated 1.4 MMBF from the Olympic National Forest and $275,000 in stewardship receipts, to be applied to restoration projects on the Forest.
The Collaborative added capacity by contributing to the harvest prescription and post-harvest monitoring. The OFC’s long-term desired future condition for the H to Z project area was to obtain habitat characteristics that are found in fully functioning late successional/old growth forest.
The stewardship receipts from the H to Z sale have been committed for use as a culvert replacement at Milepost 16.1 in the Sitkum watershed. This project is a part of the FS RD 2900 Aquatic Restoration Project from the Olympic National Forest
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Stakeholders gathered for a field tour of the H to Z sale in August 2018 to learn about the progress of scientific monitoring concluding the sale, which measures the ecological impacts of the sale and will provide information on how to move forward with future prescriptions.