Holding onto timber also holds that value and potential income against the future. The management need for all sizes of operations is to harvest and renew timber resources in a manner that reduces impacts to other resources, including soil, salmon, oysters, wildlife and residents, while remaining profitable. Since 1985 watershed analyses and the implementation of prescriptions have reduced sediment loading and improved riparian habitats. Three of eight sub-basins in the Willapa Basin have now been or are being analyzed. No one wins if land uses change and as a result trees no longer grow in the hills.
Local fog lessens the impact of dry summers and increases vegetative growth including wood.