About

We embrace and promote the need for innovation and a diversity of voices to solve complex problems, engage in continuous improvement and advance knowledge and truth. 

We embrace sound scientific practices and alternative ways of knowing to educate and prepare students to become critical thinkers and skilled communicators. 

We foster a culture of acceptance, equity, understanding, belonging and empowerment in our learning community and cultivate an environment that is welcoming to all.

We acknowledge that our facilities and forests are located on the traditional homelands of a diversity of Indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed from their lands and relocated to reservations. We navigate, and are part of, systems that marginalize people, and we take thoughtful action to decolonize our practices and ensure a diverse, inclusive and equitable environment for work and study that honors sovereignty rights. We respect the contributions of Indigenous communities and center our work around the Seventh Generation Principle, and incorporate multiple ways of knowing and cultural humility into our understanding and stewardship of natural resources. 

We prioritize interactions, programs and services that provide experiential learning opportunities and enthusiastically support students in pursuit of their academic and professional goals. 

We promote land and resource stewardship to strengthen and protect the connection between communities, people and the landscapes they inhabit in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 

We foster relationships and a culture of service within and beyond our college community and are committed to nurturing a climate of collaboration, accountability and trust with each other. 

We are forward-thinking, encouraging our students, alumni and community partners to be passionate agents of change.