What are your staff meetings like? Sometimes, at Pierce Conservation District, we are lucky enough to take our staff meetings out in the field. 

Habitat Team members Glenn, Kyrstin, Mary, and Ryan get ready for a staff meeting spent planting trees.

In February, our Habitat Team staff met for their quarterly field meeting on the shorelines of Henderson Bay, on the Gig Harbor Peninsula. 

With donated trees from the Carbon Capture Foundation, our staff spent the morning installing western red cedars and Douglas firs on a large, forested property that is under a conservation easement with the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The property is forested with a healthy mix of native plants. Our additions are intended to assist forest succession – kickstarting conifers in areas that are currently dominated by alder and maple. Into the future, this mature shoreline forest will support a healthy Henderson Bay. 

What better way to build a team than by getting out from behind the keyboard to plant the next generation of forest? 

Habitat Improvement Director Heather Green installs a protective grow tube on a freshly planted tree seedling.