DNR funding for Tiger Tail awarded The State of Washington Department of Natural Resources has awarded $10,000 for the Tiger Tail Stewardship thinning project in the Wynoochee Watershed. This project will focus on the pre-sale work for the Tiger Tail Stewardship Sale, which will occur on the Olympic National Forest in 2025. Olympic National Forest is […]
Farewell and Thanks to Olivia Awbrey The Olympic Forest Collaborative is sad to say farewell to Olivia Awbrey who served as our Coordinator since September 2021. Olivia was just the second, and longest serving, coordinator for the Collaborative. During her more than two years as coordinator, she has greatly increased our effectiveness supporting our bi-weekly
Staffing Update (3/19/24) Read More »
Collaborative End-of-Year Newsletter – 2023
Olympic Collaborative Newsletter – December 2023 Read More »
Olympic Collaborative Newsletter – October 2023
Olympic Collaborative Newsletter – Oct 2023 Read More »
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
Collaborative Receives Olympic Peninsula Title II Award for Growing Monitoring Program Read More »
September 2023 Updates October 2023 Update
September and October 2023 Updates Read More »
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