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2023 Washington Legislative session begins

January 11, 2023

2022 Year in Review

December 15, 2022

114th WFPA Annual Meeting recognizes, celebrates working forests

November 23, 2022

Late wildfire season underscores importance of forest management

November 7, 2022

FORESTER'S CORNER

Green from the ground up.

Modern forestry, driven by science and a commitment to stewardship, is ensuring that Washington’s privately owned forests are setting the standard for sustainability. It’s part of our heritage.

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Our work includes respecting the homes of wildlife.

Understanding the needs of wildlife – including diminutive killdeer who normally nest on sandy, tidal beaches – is just part of what working foresters do.

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For every tree harvested, three seedlings are planted.

Replanting in working forests ensures that forests are regrown quickly, labor that ensures they will be green and productive for future generations.

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Stewards of ours and our neighbor's future.

A forest in the Cascades might be the “neighbor” of a Central Puget Sound tribe hundreds of miles away because of a stream connecting their lands.

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In our forests, we're mindful that we're not alone.

Our calling creates connections to the creatures of the forests and energizes our commitment to stewardship.

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Our Current Focus

Sustainable Forestry is a Natural Carbon Solution

The Legislature took historic action on climate change, passing both a cap & trade program and a low carbon fuels standard. This action makes Washington only one of two states to adopt both policies. Both are complicated bills, but the bottom line is that policies contained in the forest sector carbon bill is reflected in these enactments that recognizes the essential role Washington state’s forestry industry and working forests play in removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Salmon Journey

Forest landowners are doing their part for salmon recovery, but forestry is just one part of the salmon life cycle. All activities in a watershed that affects streams must do their part to protect riparian areas and remove fish passage barriers for fish to thrive.

Sustainable Forestry Dialogue

“I’ve dedicated most of my life to the natural resources. I’ve been a commercial fisherman, a tree farmer, I still own a small tree farm in SW Washington and I’ve had a cattle ranch in the past. I’ve also been a legislator who supported natural resources through the House Natural Resources committee, and now I’m Executive Director for the WFPA. Where my passion comes from for natural resources, is that I want to leave the state of Washington as well for my children and grandchildren as I found it. The way of life that we’ve had here is critical to having a bright future for this state. Natural resources are an incredible asset for the state of Washington. The forest products industry has been a large backbone industry since prior to statehood, and it will be a large industry for the state on into the future, for the foreseeable future, for perpetuity.”

Mark L. Doumit, 2008