COUGAR RUN CO | RESTORING THE WILD
During the height of the pandemic, we found 18 acres of logged land on the Olympic Peninsula. Little did we know how much this moment would shape our future. Our depleted forest needed to heal as much as we did. We are learning how to live closer to the land and in harmony with nature — discovering that restoration begins from within.
What began as an act of renewal has evolved into Cougar Run Co., a living land collaboratory by Revel Wolf Collective, where art, the wild, and innovation merge to reimagine 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
It all started with a van, two dogs, and a love of the Wild.
THE STORY OF COUGAR RUN
We are reforesters, lovers of the Earth, makers, and dreamers, tending the wild, one tree at a time.
This is where the work began, a living collaboratory where art, the wild, and innovation merge.
THE 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 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. We may not live long enough to see them tall, yet they remain our hope for a healthy forest and a better Earth — for generations to come, the wild and the human alike.
Gettin’ Dirty.
Hands in the dirt. Heart in the work!
This work continues through The Collaboratory, the living land and innovation studio of Revel Wolf Collective —
where art, the wild, and innovation merge.
Follow Our Journey!
Instagram → @cougarrunco.collaboratory