OLYMPIC FOREST COLLABORATIVE

The Olympic Peninsula Collaborative brings together stakeholders from the environmental community, the timber industry, and representatives from federal and local government around shared goals of increasing timber harvest from the Olympic National Forest while benefiting the environmental quality of our forests and watersheds. The Collaborative works together with federal officials to address issues that stand in the way of achieving the stated goals. Ultimately, the purpose is to show we can simultaneously create a more environmentally sound forest, increase sustainable timber harvests on the Olympic National Forest, and provide economic benefits to timber communities on the Peninsula... Increasing the amount of acres treated and total harvest volume produced in forest restoration projects under the Northwest Forest Plan and increasing the number and footprint of aquatic and other non-thinning related restoration projects... Creating a framework of agreement on the type and..