Thomas D. Anundson & David J. O'Barto, Consulting Foresters

09/18/2026

I had a pretty fun encounter in the PA woods today!
-Jared

09/18/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/1C9Ea3k8MU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

🌲 A little over a hundred years ago, the mountains of northern Pennsylvania looked like the surface of the moon, and people called the region the Pennsylvania Desert.

The lumber boom ran roughly from the Civil War into the nineteen teens and it was total. Crews took the white pine first, then the hemlock, which was cut as much for the bark as the wood because tanneries needed it. Logging railroads were pushed up every hollow. Whole towns appeared next to a mill and disappeared when the timber ran out. Photographs from around 1900 show ridge after ridge of nothing but stumps, and the erosion and fires that followed made a lot of it worse.

What happened next is the part worth knowing. 🍃 Starting around the turn of the century the state began buying up the cutover land that nobody wanted, often for a couple of dollars an acre, and set it aside as state forest. Those purchases are the reason Pennsylvania now has millions of acres of public forest and why the fall color people drive hours to see exists at all. Almost every mature stand you walk through up there is second growth on ground somebody once wrote off as ruined.

Has your family ever shown you a photo of a Pennsylvania hillside that looks nothing like it does today?

08/08/2026

Check out this event!

07/10/2026

https://ocj.com/2026/07/hunting-seasons-announced/

The Ohio Wildlife Council has approved 2026-27 hunting seasons, with waterfowl, small game, migratory birds, and fall wild turkey season dates similar to previous years. Ruffed grouse hunting will be limited to controlled hunting on four designated areas, for which hunters may apply in July. Wild

06/05/2026

🦌 This is completely normal behavior for a deer fawn, and human intervention is unnecessary.

Fawns are born nearly scentless so predators cannot find them easily. They also have spots that serve as camouflage and are able to stand soon after being born, but as a protective tactic will remain hidden.
📷 Daryl Mummey

06/04/2026

Thanks a lot Smoky Bear 😜🤣

05/30/2026

Cool woods stuff…

05/04/2026

A little late for these morels but this is the first patch I've seen in years! -Jared

04/11/2026

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