Tolt River Highlands

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The County

View the County's records of property ownership with their Interactive Mapping Application.
Information on the county's Transfer of Development Credits program.
King County department of natural resources and parks forestry program.

Forestry Equipment

Forest Industry: links to tons of forest management product vendors
Future Forestry Products: This is a small company out of Orgegon that makes some interesting tools, including tools to use with ATVs to skid logs out. They also have a real interesting system for pruning trees.
Ben Meadows: Everything you could possibly want related to working outdoors. Their bibliography is a great source of reference info.

Weather

National Weather Service - Seattle, home page

Forest Stewardship Sites

Washington state DNR small forest landowner office. They have a very useful mailing list -- subscribe by sending mail to sflo-mail@wadnr.gov with the word subscribe in the subject.
Washington state DNR forest stewardship program.
WSU rural technology initiative
Woodland Fish and Wildlife: information on managing woods for fish and wildlife
Black Mountain Forestry Center: lots of forestry events
Fire safety for people who live in the woods
WSU Cooperative Extension Forest Stewardship Program
Maintenance of Woodland Roads, from OSU (Acrobat format)
General land management information from OSU

Water Issues

The Snoqualmie Watershed (in which our land lies)
King County Flood Page
USGS Washington Current Streamflow Conditions

Organizations / Advocacy

Lake Joy Community Club
The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation
Washington Farm Forestry Association
Evergreen Ecoforestry, owners of the neighboring Snoqualmie Tree Farm. Here is a Seattle Times article on the purchase.

Taxes

The National Timber Tax Website from Purdue University and the USDA Forest Service. You can find the "Forest Landowners Guide to the Federal Income Tax" here.

Miscellaneous

Living with Bears