NW Woodlands

 John Henrikson Bio

 News Articles

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 Introduction

 Early 1900s Photos

 Wild Thyme Forest
 30 Year History

 Natural Succession

 Forest Trauma

 Clearing Roads

 Maintaining Roads

 Road Crew

 Articulation

 Thinning Trees

 Yarding Logs

 Milling Lumber

 Forest Products

A. The fir tree is covered with fallen and dead limbs, tangled by overgrown weeds, brush and briars. The area beneath the tree is obscured and inaccessible.
B. Dead limbs and brush are cleared. Lower dead limbs are sawed off and removed.
C. A brush hog mows overgrown weeds, brush and briars along the meadow edge.
D. Now we can enjoy walking and sitting under the tree, enjoying its shade. The grandeur of this large tree is accentuated and better appreciated.

Originally these firs were an inpenetrable thicket of dead, eye-poking lower branches, making the grove inaccessible and inhospitable. After limbing off these lower branches up to ten feet, the grove was opened up to easy walking, appreciation and summer picnics under the canopy shade.