Foresters: A Short Seventy-Year Plan Hats

Forestry gives a long plan plenty to work with. Timber cruising estimates the quantity of timber on a tract by sampling part of it. Silviculture reaches beyond a harvest date: it concerns forest establishment, growth, composition, health and quality, with management shaped by landowner and societal values. Even-aged and uneven-aged approaches offer different ways to manage a stand. In Western Oregon's even-aged Douglas-fir context, Oregon State University Extension describes harvest intervals of 30 to 80 years, depending on the site and goals. That regional range supplies the setting for a very patient sense of humor. These forester hats let that patience get gloriously out of hand. A forty-year project is only a promising start, a forestry plan has descendants, and the trees have requested more time. Seventy years is the joke's cheerful deadline. It is a boast about the wearer's patience, rather than a timetable for every forest. FORESTER and FORESTRY provide the plain identity badges, while APPARENTLY I LIKE FORESTRY brings a phrase already offered on forestry shirts. The result is a collection for the person who can make a generation sound like a reasonable turnaround time.