Gardening by Osmosis

We shan’t be fooled by April’s snow storm.

The Inland northwest is still suffering from many years of drought. We see evidence in the stressed pines that forest our region. And those non-native arborvitae show brown and dying needles. Without much imagination we remember the stress of the hot, dry winds of last summer.

There is a solution to our fears of fire, it is management.

I invite you to become familiar with agencies in our area that may assist you in developing a plan to spare our way of life.

Fire wise programs including education and plant selection beneficial in establishing an envir...