Didn't Go as Planned

Logs that rolled back down the hill. Plans that met the weather. The part of the story most people leave out.

The Redwoods on the South Slope Didn't Make It

Field note 260825 · August 25, 2026 Coast redwood keeps coming up as a candidate tree for a warmer western Oregon, and every time it does, I think about the ones I planted on our south side. They didn't make it. So when an OSU Tree School session in August took on growing redwoods and giant sequoia in Oregon, I went in with a personal stake in the answer. What happened here The south-side planting went in under the forest canopy. Within about five years, every one of those tr

Thinning & Planting

Peter H Wendel

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