Maple Falls
Washington
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Black Mountain Forestry Center
Black Mountain Forestry Center is a grassroots, volunteer driven, locally created center located in Maple Falls, Washington, in the foothills of Mt. Baker.
Mission
To promote awareness and provide education for the general public about our forests, their history, ecology, and value as a renewable natural resource.
Our Purpose
Black Mountain Forestry Center strives to improve people's relationship with the "World of Wood". It balances public interests with the enhancement and management of natural resources through a unique combination of education, conservation, recreation, and support for local wood-related cottage industries. BMFC promotes modern forest practices, public relations, tourism, and local economic growth in a formerly timber based community. It establishes and supports environmentally sensitive forestry education in the local school systems, and serves as a resource base of forestry information for the general public.
Current Goals:
- Maintain, enhance and operate a Forestry Museum and Interpretive site in partnership with Whatcom County Parks.
- Develop an Interpretive Center and Demonstration Forest to be used for natural resource education.
-Offer public tours of: the Forestry Museum, timber harvest demonstration site and historic saw mill, 25,000 acres of tree plantations on commercial and small lot forestry lands, old growth forests, log home manufacturers, and Christmas tree farms.
-Expand a Forestry Library, including a bookstore, and Information Center.
-Expand ongoing natural resource educational programs for educators, the general public, and school students- elementary through university and professional levels.
-Assist in the recovery of a former timber based economy by supporting and promoting opportunities for local wood workers and their products as well as tourism activities.
-Assist the scientific community as it studies forest ecology and it’s influence on such fields as medicine and pharmacology, wildlife and habitat, watershed analysis and management.
-Long-term goal to establish a "Forestry Camp" with rustic cabins, meeting center for l00 people and campgrounds. This facility will be used for natural resource education.
Mission
To promote awareness and provide education for the general public about our forests, their history, ecology, and value as a renewable natural resource.
Our Purpose
Black Mountain Forestry Center strives to improve people's relationship with the "World of Wood". It balances public interests with the enhancement and management of natural resources through a unique combination of education, conservation, recreation, and support for local wood-related cottage industries. BMFC promotes modern forest practices, public relations, tourism, and local economic growth in a formerly timber based community. It establishes and supports environmentally sensitive forestry education in the local school systems, and serves as a resource base of forestry information for the general public.
Current Goals:
- Maintain, enhance and operate a Forestry Museum and Interpretive site in partnership with Whatcom County Parks.
- Develop an Interpretive Center and Demonstration Forest to be used for natural resource education.
-Offer public tours of: the Forestry Museum, timber harvest demonstration site and historic saw mill, 25,000 acres of tree plantations on commercial and small lot forestry lands, old growth forests, log home manufacturers, and Christmas tree farms.
-Expand a Forestry Library, including a bookstore, and Information Center.
-Expand ongoing natural resource educational programs for educators, the general public, and school students- elementary through university and professional levels.
-Assist in the recovery of a former timber based economy by supporting and promoting opportunities for local wood workers and their products as well as tourism activities.
-Assist the scientific community as it studies forest ecology and it’s influence on such fields as medicine and pharmacology, wildlife and habitat, watershed analysis and management.
-Long-term goal to establish a "Forestry Camp" with rustic cabins, meeting center for l00 people and campgrounds. This facility will be used for natural resource education.