Based on thousands of hours of personal experience, I’ve written this eBook for the tens of thousands of owners of private backyard forests in the Puget Lowlands. I believe that on average, these small areas of forest can be restored by one person, working just two hours per month, for ten months of each year (20 hours per year spread out over the entire year).

Table of Contents with links to chapters

Introduction
1 — Preliminary Steps
2 — Safety First
3 — Categories of Native and Non-Native Plants
4 — The Bradley Method
5 — The Vicious Circle of Weeding
6 — The Essential Minimum
7 — Working Towards Complete Restoration
8 — The Skills of the Forest Steward
9 — The Forest Edges
Appendices
Gear for the Forest Steward
Terminology
Why Restore Your Backyard Forest
The Ecology of Invasive Ivy
How Many Backyard Forests Are There?
Forest Restoration on Public Land
38 Common Native Plants of the Puget Lowlands
Three Seasons of the Forest Steward’s Work Year
Other Resources