Stewardship Contracting in the Siuslaw National Forest

he Siuslaw River Watershed is situated in the Mid-Coast region of Oregon. Along with the rest of the Pacific Northwest’s (PNW) bountiful and beautiful coastal rain forest, it was the scene of great upheaval and change during the final decades of the 20th Century. Through a series of court cases, logging on federal lands was halted in 1991, and for those of us living in this area of the great forests of the PNW, this brought about an eerie and unfamiliar silence as the mills and trainloads of lumber products were shut down, and the absence of smoke from forest slashburning brought clear summer skies to our homeland.