Fall greetings from your Extension Forester! This season brings a new series of Tree School Online classes on October 12 starting with Overcoming Reforestation Challenges. With that topic in mind, fall is a good time to visit any recent plantings and survey them for seedling survival and assess needs for maintenance. Unfortunately, it is a difficult time to be planning reforestation, for any reason, due to the shortage of both seedlings and reforestation service providers. Read Glenn's full letter
Best wishes to you and your trees this fall!
Glenn Ahrens,
OSU Extension Forester, Clackamas, Marion, Hood River Counties
If you are planning to plant trees for reforestation, restoration, Christmas trees, or other purposes, you probably already know that this is a very challenging time for establishing new trees. Acquiring tree seedlings and getting good help with tree planting was challenging before the 2020 wildfire season. Continue reading
Fall Tree School updates
As promised, we are delivering a new set of Tree School Online classes! We have received a lot of positive feedback from all of you, and we recognize the need to continue this program. We will not be running the webinar series as frequently as we did when we were making up for the lack of in person Tree School around the state last year... Continue reading
Christmas tree corner
The extreme heat dome event that hit the Pacific Northwest in late June of 2021 was a devastating blow to almost every sector o agriculture in the region. Over the course of three to four days, temperatures soared to record... Continue reading
Drought updates
This is the last Pacific Northwest Drought Status Update for the 2021 Water Year. Look for the next update in mid-January, which will focus on how precipitation has progressed through Fall and early Winter. You can find more information on the Drought.gov website.
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