Forestry
The Skagit Conservation District offers free, voluntary, and confidential help for local forest landowners who want to care for their land and keep it healthy and productive. When you work with one of our Forester, you'll create a practical, step-by-step guide that helps you reach your goals while protecting the natural resources on your property. We'll look at things like your timber stand composition, site conditions, terrain, nearby streams or wetlands, wildlife habitat, and the equipment and resources available to you. Together, we'll come up with actions that make your forest easier to manage, more resilient, and more sustainable for generations to come.
Forestry Assistance
Forestry assistance can help you with a number of concerns, including: forest management planning, forest health, climate adaptation, afforestation and reforestation, non-timber forest products, forest land and timber taxation, fish and wildlife habitat, damage assessment, and forest roads.
Financial Assistance
If you're interested in funding to help cover the cost of forestry work on your land, the first step is scheduling a site visit with us. Meeting early gives us the best chance to match you with the right program before grant cycles close, and many of these programs are competitive, so the sooner we get started the better.
Depending on your situation, we can help in a few different ways. Sometimes we work directly with you to get the work done. Other times we'll help you make sure you have everything you need to meet the requirements of a specific funder.
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Outreach and Education
Check out our events page to see what's coming up! We regularly host and participate in workshops and presentations covering a wide range of topics for forest landowners, and we're always adding new opportunities to connect and learn. You can also sign up for our e-newsletter to stay in the loop on local forestry news, upcoming events, and resources from organizations at the local, state, and national level.
Online Resources
Planning and assessment tool of historical, current, and provisional seed zones for common pacific northwest tree
species from state and federal data.
Planning and assessment tool of past, present, and future wildfire conditions, from current local, state,
and federal data sources.
Comprehensive source of historical aerial imagery, searchable by selected area and image acquisition program
NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.
WSU Silviculture Contractor and Consulting Forester Directory
WSU Small Scale Mill Directory
WA Contract Logger Association Master Logger Certified Contractor Directory
WA DNR Monthly Survey Prices for 'Delivered Logs'
Our Forestry Partners:
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
USDA Forest Service PNW Regional Forest Health Program
Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources Small Forest Landowner Office
Washington State University Extension Puget Sound Forest Stewardship
Washington Tree Farm Program/ American Tree Farm System
Washington Farm Forestry Association