Small Wood lot Tools attends Tree school at Walla Walla Community College Feb 15

Oregon State University Extension Service will offer its long-running Tree School Clackamas on Saturday, March 22, at Clackamas Community College. Tree School is Oregon’s largest and most comprehensive forestry and natural resource education event. This is an inside and outside event, we will have a booth setup inside where we can answer question, show you…

If you have a woodlot that needs to be harvested or thinned but it’s too small to interest a commercial logging company, you can do it yourself and turn a profit, says Tom Repko, owner of small wood lot tools of Dallas, Ore. In a week’s time he cut down, skidded, bucked and stacked a…

Hook Up an Go Whether managing a woodlot, forest tract, or hobby farm, small-parcel landowners are perpetually on the move. They need effective tools to help manage their valuable timber resource-for timber maintenance, pre-commercial thinning, low-impact logging, firewood production, or wildfire fuel reduction. Based on his experience managing a family farm, Tom Repko of Small…

After buying 40 acres of mixed oak savannah and 20-year-old Douglas Fir reprod, I began the endless and extremely gratifying job of maintaining and properly managing the forest for wildlife habitat, timber and firewood production.  As with many small woodland owners, it took me nearly 60 years to get to the point of having the…