COUGAR RUN CO. | RESTORING THE WILD
Reforestation + Invasive Species Eradication + Edible Forests + Soil RegenerationDuring the height of the pandemic, we found 18 acres of logged land on the Olympic Peninsula — stripped, raw, and waiting for renewal. What began as an act of restoration has evolved into Cougar Run Co., a living land collaboratory by Revel Wolf Collective.
Our forest needed to heal as much as we did. By planting over a thousand cedar, fir, and pine babies, we are learning what it means to live in creative company with the wild — restoring balance, cultivating beauty, and reimagining how humans and land can thrive together.
Two-thirds of the Olympic Peninsula has been logged. Much of the private land has been severely cut, leaving vast stretches of stumps and brown earth.
-NEW YORK TIMES
This is where our story begins…
THE STORY OF COUGAR RUN
It all started with a van, two dogs, and a love of the Wild. The Land called out to us, and we answered.
We are reforesters, lovers of the Earth, makers, and dreamers — tending the wild back to life, one tree at a time.
This is where the work was born, a living land collaboratory where art, the wild, and innovation merge.
A LIVING COLLABORATORY.
Cougar Run is a living experiment, a practice of listening and doing. When the land speaks, we listen.
We plant cedar, fir, and pine babies in the open clearings and let the forest show us where they belong. We clear the invasives that crowd new life, making room for what wants to come home.
Fallen branches and felled trees stay in the cycle — they become shelter, mulch, compost, or sometimes the very walls of our maker shed and outhouses. Nothing leaves the land. Everything returns.
Each act teaches us something about care and reciprocity, about how to live in creative company with the Earth.
Our mission is simple — to leave the Earth better than we found her.
REFORESTING
We live among the felled cedars on Cougar Run, planting new life near each giant to honor their existence.
Each tree we plant is love. Though we may not live long enough to see them tall, they are our hope for a healthy forest and a better Earth — for generations to come, the wild and the human alike.
