Caring for woodlands had steep learning curve

In 2019, my wife and I took retirement money to purchase 39 acres of F2 woodland in Vida.  Kate was relishing a return to the PNW; I was both eagerly and anxiously anticipating our  departure from my native California. To say we were unprepared to care for a woodland  property would be an understatement. Our decades of camping, hiking, and backpacking may  have both reflected and deepened our love of wilderness, but they did not…