Valhalla Tree Farm
Valhalla Tree Farm is a 100 Acre "tree farm" where trees are grown to near-full maturity before being harvested. As it takes over thirty years to grow a tree for commercial harvest, only one or two harvests are seen in a person's lifetime. While growing the next generation of trees, the tree farm is like a really nice private park. Our tree farm was purchased by Earl Ingebright in 1958 as a getaway for his family.  It consisted of 63 acres of woods with a creek and a run down old house and barn. The area had been logged in 1900 and had naturally seeded itself with a variety of cedar, hemlock, fir and alder stands. Earl had gotten caught up in the big rage of the 1950s and 60s, and that was to have some land or a cabin on a creek or a lake to stay on weekends and summer vacations. The property turned out to be a huge hidden gem. Sixty acres with a backdrop of the stunning sheer vertical rock wall cliffs of deer mountain. He named it Valhalla after the the mythical heaven where the Norse gods live.  Jordan creek flows along the base of the cliffs and we see Coho salmon in the fall. A series of beaver ponds provide excellent trout fishing.  Earl added another forty acres to his holdings and accomplished two harvests and replants over the next fifty years. It is fun and rewarding to be tree farmers and we decreed to be stewards of the land and manage the forestlands to maximize the production of timber over the long term while giving due consideration to other forest benefits such as unique sites, aesthetics, clean air and water, wildlife and recreational opportunities.
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7/9/20