A life in relationship with the land, and those who call it home.

This land sits in the Coastal Western Hemlock bio-geo-climatic zone — more commonly known as temperate coastal rainforest, with its cool summers and mild, wet winters. It’s home to an extraordinary amount of life.

Towering Western Hemlock, Douglas Fir, Grand Fir, Western Red Cedar, White Pine, and Red Alder form the canopy, while stinging nettle, foxglove, oceanspray, salal, Oregon grape, mosses, lichens, ferns, and grasses crowd the understory below. Amongst it all live countless fungi, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals.

The land sits on a large plateau near the top of Mount Tuam — a name that remembers an older word, Ts’uween (or CUAN), describing terrain that drops steeply to the water’s edge. Selective logging in 2000 left behind a mix of young and mature forest, with small fields and rocky bluffs breaking up the gently sloping ground, and several streams winding across the land, connecting a series of wetlands.