Updates

The beautiful native short-styled thistle (Cirsium brevistylum) on our Finley Creek restoration site this morning.

Beaked filbert or hazelnut, Corylus cornuta var. californica. One of the greatest plants in the world, today in the Chuckanuts. My siblings and I knew where all the hazelnut shrubs were located in the mixed evergreen forest around our house growing up and we competed avidly with the jays for the few nuts. When found, we cracked them open with our teeth and ate them straightaway. Brings me great joy to plant these whenever possible on our revegetation sites, currently working through 200 bareroot plugs from Fourth Corner Nurseries. ... See more

This crew is so badass that they all ride their bikes to the shop every day, even when it’s dark, 25F and a north wind blowing at 20 miles an hour. And that’s before we head out into the field.

We’ve been waiting and watching for this to happen for a long while now but it doesn’t soften the blow. Keep a sharp eye peeled for those “D” shaped exit holes and let’s slow this thing down the best we can.

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Our favorite new piece of equipment so far in 2022 has been this 8’ chest freezer that we converted to a fridge. Holds steady at 40F and allows us to store our bareroot native trees and shrubs in their happy place until we get ‘em in the ground. it’s also allowing us to extend the planting season a few weeks. Should be big enough to hold our bubbly water stash this summer, too. ... See more

Well we had rain, hail and grauple mixed with sunshine and dramatic clouds during our cedar tree planting project today on Kulshan Creek in Mount Vernon. Never a dull moment.

We had the pleasure of an outstanding tour of Fourth Corner Nurseries this week as part of the Wetland Study Group. Amazing operation and how lucky we are to have this grower in our backyard. In this photo you can see c. 300,000 bareroot native plants waiting in the cooler before pick up/shipment. Thanks 4C! ... See more

Planting native shrubs in the snow: always a good time.

So many of our friends and neighbors in the Everson and Sumas areas have been devastated by this historic, terrible flood. Here’s one way to help.

Oh. Shit.