AMBOY — The Washington Tree Farm Program gave Randy and Linda Lawffer the 2016 Washington Tree Farmer of the Year award.
The award was announced Friday at the Washington Farm Forestry Association annual meeting in Olympia.
The 250-acre Lawffer Tree Farm in northeast Clark County, near Amboy, has been owned by the Lawffer family since the early 1900s. The Lawffers recently created a trust to ensure there will be financial resources to manage the tree farm into the future.
Randy Lawffer has managed the family property for about 40 years.
The Tree Farmer of the Year award is based on the recipient’s commitment to conservation, community involvement and advocacy for sustainable forest management.
The award winner is selected by the Washington Tree Farm Program, a nonprofit organization that works with small-scale Washington forest land owners to help them sustainably manage more than 400,000 acres of private forestlands in the state.
