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Crestmont Farm: Ecologically Enhanced PCT (Pre-Commercial Thinning)
Tour # 4
Crestmont Farm: Ecologically Enhanced PCT (Pre-Commercial Thinning)
Thursday, June 19 • 1 PM - 4:30 PM
Meet at Philomath Scout Lodge.
Carpool for tours. Short walks. Dress for the weather.
Travel to the award-winning Crestmont Farm property with owner Ed Easterling and his team for this special tour. Traditional Pre-Commercial Thinning (PCT) operations leave stands with dense slash, limited wildlife habitat, elevated fire risk, and challenging firefighting conditions. Crestmont’s creative Plantation Transformation Strategy (PTS) addresses those issues and more. This tour contrasts PCT and PTS with hands-on demonstrations of cost-effective practices to deliver highly valued ecological, fire-resilient, and aesthetic results, proven with adapted variations over hundreds of acres.