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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Lots going on politically and professionally but today is personal. On 8/31 I suffered a complete rupture of my right Achilles resulting in surgery on 9/11/2025. This week while in AZ for work I ran for the first time since surgery. Been a long hard road, long ways to go. But feeling great today.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Headed to the 9th American Forest Congress and while I’m excited to discuss the future of forest management in the US I am also looking to ground myself with the words of a man who worked 40 years in the organization that was developed ‘almost immediately after’ the 1905 Forest Congress

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

8 years ago - Sunrise over the Columbia on the fire I had been working night shift on since it was ignited by fireworks on July 4th. Things are a bit dry and federal resources are limited. Be careful with celebrations, would be great if we could avoid burning down the nations forests.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Foresters ride bikes too. Really, we do. The past few months have been bumpy, but last weekend while out mountain biking with my son I remembered why continuing our work to ensure healthy forests for tomorrow is so important, it is for the generations to come, not ours.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Forester Friday! Brief overview of my standard woods attire and gear when doing inventory work. A bit different from what you will see at a trail head or campground, trading light weight for protection and durability.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Making progress on the reforestation backlog in the PNW requires an “all hands, all lands” approach. Today we are kicking off the PNW Reforestation Network with the goal of identifying and alleviating bottlenecks in the reforestation pipeline.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Forester Friday: This week on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula looking at slash and reforestation. This was salvage logged after a wildfire, machine piled, then cedar salvaged. The slash loading is high, but proximity to the ocean result in low fire hazard, but hard planting. (No Audio)

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Forester Friday! A follow up on last weeks PSA about controlling listed noxious/invasive Himalayan blackberry. This work is being done to support the landowner’s objectives of creating and maintaining habitats for native flora and fauna.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Forester Friday! A little public service announcement about controlling invasive species.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This week’s Forester Friday is a clip from January. Curious if anyone can identify the little critters at the end. @momalusk.bsky.social you are my go to critter identifier

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s Forester Friday, looking at root disease impacts and treatment in western WA Douglas-fir stands.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Trying a new thing, calling it ‘Forester Friday’. Images and videos from my time in the brush. It’s spring in the PNW, suns out and these Doug-fir buds are getting ready to go. Looking for 4+ feet of height growth this season out of these trees I planted 3 and 4 years ago.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Spent Friday morning talking to 60+ fourth graders about careers in Natural Resources, primarily Reforestation. So many hard questions, their curiosity and care for the natural world gave me hope for the future.

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Brian Morris, PhD @morrisforest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Trying to figure out what to do here. So posting a pic from field work preparing a local forest management plan. Nothing special, just an old growth stump I found during a day in the woods

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