The Architecture of Sustainable Forestry
Northwest Natural Resources Group
This presentation will discuss how architecture, the building trades, and consumer choice for wood products can influence a more sustainable forestry model in the pacific Northwest. For most people the concept of sustainable forestry relates to how forests are managed. However few draw a direct connection between architecture and modern silviculture.
1:00 pm Saturday April 16, Site #14 Tormore, Home of Sherry Snider
Address: 545 72nd Lane NE, Olympia, WA 98506
Emphasis will be placed on the palette of locally available and "green" certified wood products that builders and homeowners can choose from in order to support small-scale, family-owned and environmentally managed forests.
Kirk is a small forest landowner with a 30-acre tree farm near Oakville, Washington where he manages a regenerating forest and develops experimental agroforestry systems. Kirk has worked on strategies for combining rural economic development with environmental enhancement in the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years.
In 1996 Kirk founded Permaculture West, a non-profit organization that provided educational and training programs on sustainable forest and farm management for private landowners. In 1999 Kirk worked with a private fisheries consultancy on Critical Areas Ordinance issues pertaining to farming and riparian areas in the Skagit Valley. In 2000 Kirk helped found the Small Forest Landowner Office in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources where he assisted family forest landowners across the state in finding financial and technical assistance.
Kirk graduated from Evergreen State College in 1995 with a B.S. in Sustainable Resource Management. His professional affiliations include the Washington Farm Forestry Association, Forest Guild and Family Forest Foundation.
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