Brian Morris, PhD

Lots going on politically and professionally but today is personal. On 8/31 I suffered a complete rupture of my right Achilles resulting in surgery on 9/11/2025. This week while in AZ for work I ran for the first time since surgery. Been a long hard road, long ways to go. But feeling great today.

💡 Bring your ideas, questions, and a willingness to engage with panels, keynotes, breakout sessions, and a resource fair.

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🔥 We need your perspective to tackle difficult questions and problems: What does proactive and holistic post-fire restoration look like? What policies do we need to get there? How can our collective best step up in a time of unprecedented change to facilitate recovery for future generations?

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🍃 The California Reforestation Pipeline Partnership (RPP) presents 'The Understory' this Dec 2-4 in Roseville, CA. Join industry leaders, reforestation practitioners, scientists, policymakers and Indigenous land stewards to set a course for the next chapter of post-fire restoration in California
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📣 Only 3 days left for Early Bird registration! Don’t miss the year’s most comprehensive conversation on forest restoration after wildfire.

Hosted by @americanforests.bsky.social
 
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Learn more & register now: americanforests1.regfox.com/understory

Job Opportunities - American Forests The movement to create healthy forests is growing daily as more people recognize the role of trees in slowing climate change and advancing social equity. Be a part of it.

I’m HIRING!!!!

Nine Reforestation/Restoration positions spread across the US. Mostly focused on post hurricane/wildfire restoration on USFS lands.

www.americanforests.org/job-opportun...

@jpgannon.bsky.social is documenting his experience teaching about teaching. While I left the academic world some time ago, I see many parallels to my role as a program manager/leader. Definitely worth the quick weekly read for anyone in a teaching, coaching, leadership, or management role.

If you can’t join, register so you are notified when the recording is available

Want to learn about post fire forest restoration?

Join @epansing.bsky.social and our @americanforests.bsky.social colleagues on August 14th to learn about how we are scaling reforestation across the west through partnerships.

Aug 14 10:00-11:30AM MST

Registration link below

Come work with me! We’re hiring an ecologist who will be working with Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks to support whitebark pine conservation and restoration. Please share!

workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

YouTube video by CBS Mornings How forests are being restored after wildfires

That’s my team on CBS! Our work on cone collection in South Central Oregon was highlighted on CBS over the weekend

youtu.be/zImNobBVqfg

Headed to the 9th American Forest Congress and while I’m excited to discuss the future of forest management in the US I am also looking to ground myself with the words of a man who worked 40 years in the organization that was developed ‘almost immediately after’ the 1905 Forest Congress

8 years ago - Sunrise over the Columbia
on the fire I had been working night shift on since it was ignited by fireworks on July 4th. Things are a bit dry and federal resources are limited. Be careful with celebrations, would be great if we could avoid burning down the nations forests.

On this Forester Friday I’m getting ready for the 9th American Forest Congress where 400+ of the brightest minds in forestry will provide solutions for the future of US forests. Registration is still open, if you want to be ‘in the room where it happened’ click the link below.

forestcongress.org

Foresters ride bikes too. Really, we do. The past few months have been bumpy, but last weekend while out mountain biking with my son I remembered why continuing our work to ensure healthy forests for tomorrow is so important, it is for the generations to come, not ours.

Forester Friday! Brief overview of my standard woods attire and gear when doing inventory work. A bit different from what you will see at a trail head or campground, trading light weight for protection and durability.

Making progress on the reforestation backlog in the PNW requires an “all hands, all lands” approach. Today we are kicking off the PNW Reforestation Network with the goal of identifying and alleviating bottlenecks in the reforestation pipeline.

Forester Friday: This week on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula looking at slash and reforestation. This was salvage logged after a wildfire, machine piled, then cedar salvaged. The slash loading is high, but proximity to the ocean result in low fire hazard, but hard planting. (No Audio)

Forester Friday! A follow up on last weeks PSA about controlling listed noxious/invasive Himalayan blackberry. This work is being done to support the landowner’s objectives of creating and maintaining habitats for native flora and fauna.

It is found across western WA and down into CA. It is a problem for field work and will occupy a site, overtopping native plant communities and can overtop and suppress planted conifer.

Agreed, we have a native trailing blackberry in this region which I am a fan of, not as tasty but is native. However, Himalayan blackberry is not native to the PNW and is listed as a ‘Class C’ noxious plant by the WA Noxious Weed Board.

Forester Friday! A little public service announcement about controlling invasive species.

This week’s Forester Friday is a clip from January. Curious if anyone can identify the little critters at the end.

@momalusk.bsky.social you are my go to critter identifier

It’s Forester Friday, looking at root disease impacts and treatment in western WA Douglas-fir stands.

Trying a new thing, calling it ‘Forester Friday’. Images and videos from my time in the brush.

It’s spring in the PNW, suns out and these Doug-fir buds are getting ready to go. Looking for 4+ feet of height growth this season out of these trees I planted 3 and 4 years ago.

Nursery Manager Under the direct supervision of the Associate Director of Forest Planning and Implementation, this position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all activities related to a forest ...

Colorado State Forest Service is hiring a nursery manager. Please share widely!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/159...

Spent Friday morning talking to 60+ fourth graders about careers in Natural Resources, primarily Reforestation. So many hard questions, their curiosity and care for the natural world gave me hope for the future.

Trying to figure out what to do here. So posting a pic from field work preparing a local forest management plan. Nothing special, just an old growth stump I found during a day in the woods