by WhiteOak | Oct 1, 2014 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
The end of the year’s growing season prompts us to give a short report on the Kolb forest. The greater than normal precipitation in the last several years (68.15″ in 2011, 47.8 in 2012, 61.8 in 2013, 43.4 so far this year) has produced strong plant growth, and we now...
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
Just before hosting visitors during the Foundation’s annual meeting day in October, the owners finished a new Two Bridge Trail. Also, they added a fifth bridge to their network. This one takes hikers across a ravine carved out by Hurricane Camille. With substantial...
by WhiteOak | Jun 1, 2012 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
As owners of a 500-Year Forest for almost eight years now, Hal and Jean can see real progress in their invasive efforts. This year they added 4th year student Michael Jordan to their crew of occasional workers with Peter Mehring, Lee & Kathryn Kolb, Shirley...
by WhiteOak | Nov 1, 2010 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
by Jean Kolb When a storm takes down a good-sized tree in our forest, it slowly becomes a food bar for bears—a rotting log offering grubs, ant larvae, termites, and perhaps a mouse nest or seed cache. Pulled-off chunks of softened wood mark a bear’s visit. A pile of...
by WhiteOak | Jun 1, 2010 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
This beautiful stream in the Kolb 500-Year Forest is flush with melting snow and rainfall. Hal Kolb says, “There is nothing prettier that a stream running through a forest. It seems to me that one of the great contributions of a mature forest is to store water for...
by WhiteOak | Oct 1, 2009 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
In late October, four 500-Year Forest Foundation directors visited the Kolb Forest where they saw some large tulip trees and heard Jean Kolb talk about removing non-native invasive Japanese stilt grass, Microstegium vimineum. Stilt grass, she explained, can grow three...
