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Forest Health

Forest Owners Field Day for eastern Washington comes to Vetter Farm

June 11, 2024

Learn to plan, protect, and sustain eastern Washington woodlands at the upcoming Forest Owners Field Day.

Past forest health field day- outdoor event

Webinar: A year in review of eastern Washington forest health

March 10, 2022

Extension-hosted Zoom event examines trends in forest health, challenges from the past year.

Larvae-damaged tree.

Citizen scientists can help study, halt die-off of Pacific Northwest’s redcedars

March 10, 2021

Citizens can help trace the worrying die-off of an iconic forest tree.

Southwest WA forest owners can protect land’s health, value with online WSU Coached Planning Course

November 2, 2020

Foresters will help SW Washington owners protect, gain value from their lands

Course participants look on in an in-woods visit, as an instructor shows a trunk section.

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Today, it's an encounter with WSU forestry students learning to fight wildfire. Tomorrow, it might be a photo session with cheesemakers at the WSU Creamery or a field-day trip through experimental meadows at the university’s new Perennial Grass Breeding and Ecology Farm. For communicator and WSU alumnus Seth Truscott, the many facets of CAHNRS ensure that no two days are alike. A newspaper journalist and editor in a prior incarnation, he has brought the community and identity of the college to light through reports, blog posts, press releases, images, and other media since 2015.