HOSKINS — The field was choked with dead fir trees, blackberries climbing out of them. The ridges were barren, picked over by timber harvests going back years. And somewhere in there, a creek ran through ground so flat and wet that Dave and Sarah Ehlers stood looking at it and saw something most people wouldn’t — potential.
Sarah Ehlers remembers her mother’s reaction on that first visit.
“We had three very small children and my mom was like, ‘What are you guys doing?’” she recalled…