How often we hear about the NW's understory being just weeds. Or the logs and branches just waste to be eliminated. Here's proof. Nearby the Lois remodel project, Brad spied this load of "waste" shortly to be hauled off to the landfill (before burning was forbidden it would have been burned, polluting the air, for days and days and days.) Brad inquired of the machine operator if he could have this "waste". "Sure" was the reply. "It's just junk, take it."
Just junk it is not. Not when one understands what makes healthy soil. This forest duff, along with the logs and branches, will be added to the disturbed soil at the Lois project. The logs will become nurse logs, growing moss, ferns, huckleberries. This junk will absorb rain and more gently put the water from the rain into the soil. This pile is anything but junk. To a person understanding soil this pile is pure gold.
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