While we now have more snow than we know what to do with, this winter started slowly. If youâve been following our forest management project at the Andrews Community Forest in Richmond, youâll know that we struggled with warm weather and soils that didnât freeze until far later than usual. For loggers, the wintertime is like the summertime for farmers, or the spring for sugarmakers â a short period of time when they make a disproportionate amount of their yearly income. As forest managers, this is when some of our best work gets done; when we can manage our forests to be more diverse, resilient and complex while producing local renewable resources (wood) with minimal impacts to soils. When, like this year, we have warm, wet weather into January, it challenges our ability to do this important work.