Where to Buy Forestry Supplies and Materials

Forestry
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Forestry Tools
You can purchase forestry tools such as increment borers,
logger tapes, clinometers, planting shovels, pruning saws,
and much more from forestry supply retailers. Your local
saw shop may also carry some of these items.
• Bailey’s—1-800-322-4539
http://www.baileysonline.com/
• Ben Meadows—1-800-241-6401
http://www.benmeadows.com/
• Forestry Suppliers—1-800-647-5368
http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/
• Pac-Forest Supply—1-877-736-5995
http://www.pacforestsupply.com/
• PullerBear—1-877-943-3607
http://www.pullerbear.com/
• The Uprooter—1-888-801-0201
http://www.theuprooter.com/
Wildlife Damage Protection
Plastic tubing and a variety of repellents are available
from forestry supply retailers. Make sure that repellants
are registered by the Washington State Department of
Agriculture (WSDA) for use in Washington.
One wildlife repellent, Seadust, is only available directly
from the manufacturer:
http://www.seadust.biz or 1-866-352-6055.
Wildlife Forage Seed Mixes
Mixes of legumes and grasses are available that will increase
wildlife forage on disturbed sites such as logging roads (see
http://forestry.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/
Forage_Mixes.pdf for some seed mix recipes). It can be
difficult to find seed mixes sold in small quantities (i.e. not
sold by the ton). Here are some possible sources.
• Rainier Seeds in Davenport, WA—This company
has developed small batches of forage seed mixes
specifically for small landowners: 509-725-1235 or
http://www.rainierseeds.com/
There are several tools available to provide the necessary
leverage to manually remove woody-stemmed weeds like
Scotch broom. A common tool available in the past was
the Weed Wrench, but these are no longer produced.
Three similar alternatives are currently available:
• Skagit Farm Supply, with
multiple locations in Skagit,
Island, and Snohomish
counties. They carry an
erosion mix that will mitigate
erosion and attract wildlife,
and they also have a pasture
mix. 360-757-6053 (main
office in Burlington) or http://
www.skagitfarmers.com
• The Extractigator—1-855-743-0353
http://www.extractigator.com/
• Other local feed or farm
supply stores.
Weed Removers
Native Plants and Trees
The Washington Department of Natural Resource’s
Webster Nursery south of Tumwater has seedlings of
the most commonly planted tree species available in
bundles of 100. They begin taking orders on the first
business day of September, and they often sell out.
For more information call 1-877-890-2626 or visit
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/BusinessPermits/Topics/
WebsterForestNursery/.
Weyerhaeuser sells seedlings to the public. For more information call 1-800-732-4769 or visit http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/Businesses/WesternSeedlingSales.
Forest Seedling Network is a website where you can search
for available seedlings for sale: http://www.forestseedlingnetwork.com/.
The Washington Association of Conservation Districts
(WACD) Plant Materials Center in Bow, WA has a wide
variety of native trees and plants (bare root and live
stake), usually in bundles of 25 or 50. They take orders
year-round for distribution in winter and early spring.
For more information call 360-757-1094 or visit
http://www.wacdpmc.org/.
A good source for a variety of native trees and plants are
the conservation district plant sales that are held each year,
usually around the beginning of March. You may need to
pre-order to guarantee availability of what you want, and
the deadline can be as early as December. Bare root stock,
live stakes, and seedlings are available through these sales,
generally offering a low-cost alternative to nurseries.
Here are some of the plant sales that occur annually in the
North Puget Sound area. Contact the plant sale in your
county to get specific dates, request a sale brochure, and
get added to their announcement list.
• King Conservation District—425-282-1898
http://www.kingcd.org/
Native Plant Nurseries
Here are two directories of the numerous nurseries in the
area that carry native trees and plants:
King Conservation District Native Plant Nursery List
http://www.kingcd.org/pdf/publication_native_
nurseries.pdf
Plant Native: Native Plant Nursery Directory
http://www.plantnative.org/nd_wa.htm
Some species can be hard to find (e.g. Pacific yew).
Here are several nurseries that have been known to carry
harder to find native trees and plants.
• Fourth Corner Nurseries, Bellingham, WA
360-592-2250
http://www.fourthcornernurseries.com
• MsK Rare Plant Nursery, Shoreline, WA
206-546-1281
http://msknursery.com/
• Woodbrook Nursery, Gig Harbor, WA
253-857-6808
http://woodbrooknativeplantnursery.com/
• Skagit Conservation District—360-428-4313
http://www.skagitcd.org/
• Snohomish Conservation District—425-335-5634 ext. 4
http://snohomishcd.org/
• Vashon Land Trust—206-463-2644
http://isladev.com/vmilt/
• Whatcom Conservation District—360-354-2035
http://www.whatcomcd.org/
• Whidbey Island Conservation District—360-678-4708
http://www.whidbeycd.org/
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