Olympic Resource Management offers unique asset management services to investors and others in land related resources. We optimize long-term value for our stakeholders by focusing on good stewardship and managing the land for a variety of uses. Interwoven throughout our land management activities is an ethic, which recognizes the importance of balancing and integrating growth, harvesting and reforestation on our timberlands with the protection and enhancement of air and water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, soils, and aesthetic values.

Our key principles in managing timberlands to their maximum value include:

• Sustainable Forestry
• Responsible Practices
• Reforestation and Productive Capacity
• Forest Health & Productivity
• Long-Term Forest and Soil Productivity
• Protection of Water Resources
• Protection of Special Sites & Biological Diversity
• Legal Compliance
• Continual Improvement

Sustainable Forestry
We manage our forests by employing a variety of scientifically, environmentally, and economically sound management practices that maintain and enhance the productive capacity of our lands. We manage in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by practicing a land stewardship ethic that integrates reforestation and the managing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products with the conservation of soil, air and water quality, biological diversity, wildlife and aquatic habitat, recreation, and aesthetics, all with the ultimate goal of optimizing the production and value of our land and resources.

Responsible Practices
We employ practices that ensure efficient utilization of our timber and facilitate the regeneration of future stands. We do this while protecting water and soil resources and providing for other on-site values such as wildlife and aesthetics. We promote sustainable forestry practices that are both scientifically credible and economically, environmentally, and socially responsible.

Reforestation and Productive Capacity
We strive to regenerate all timber-producing lands to desirable timber species as soon as possible after harvest. We nurture young stands as they grow to maintain and improve the future production capacity of the forestland base.

Forest Health & Productivity
We maintain asset value by diligently protecting our forest assets from wildfire, pests, disease and other damaging agents in an effort to maintain and improve long-term forest health and productivity. We participate in stand management cooperatives that conduct research in pest damage control and we maintain a dialogue with State firefighting officials as well as with local fire districts.

Long-Term Forest and Soil Productivity
We protect soils by utilizing efficient land management techniques that consider terrain, seasonal operability, and type of machinery with the goal of maintaining long-term forest productivity. Within our road system we provide effective erosion control measures such as ditches, culverts, and grass seeding.

Protection of Water Resources
We preserve water quality in streams, lakes wetlands and other marine areas by maintaining protective buffer zones near watercourses based on slope, soils, and vegetation. We protect water related buffer zones by separating them from other forest inventory and indicating their unavailability. We also employ harvest practices that reduce soil disturbance and diffuse water runoff in recently harvested areas. We monitor water quality during active operations and as stands are regenerating after harvest.

Protection of Special Sites and Biological Diversity
We manage our forests and lands of biologic, geologic, historic, or cultural importance in a manner that takes into account their unique qualities. We manage our lands in a way that promotes a diversity of wildlife habitats, forest types, and ecological or natural community types. We protect and enhance fish and wildlife species and habitat by: controlling access; utilizing sensible, well-timed management techniques; and continuing to develop cooperative relationships with state, federal, and tribal agencies. We identify and appropriately protect special sites during the harvesting process. We identify and protect species that are globally rare or extremely rare.

Legal Compliance
We ensure the long-term effective management and care of the land by meeting or exceeding all local, state, federal, and related environmental laws, statutes, and regulations that govern the management of our forests. In areas without specific regulations, we meet or exceed recognized Best Management Practices.

Continual Improvement
We strive to continually improve the practice of forest management and also monitor, measure and report performance in achieving the commitment to sustainable forestry. We sponsor and support organizations that monitor and measure the effectiveness of forest management practices. We welcome the formation of partnerships and development of ongoing relationships with organizations, agencies, and individuals. We strive to cooperatively address specific issues and projects of interest in the communities and neighborhoods where we operate.