Management begins with a forester walking your land to learn its history and take a baseline on its current health.  Then recommendations can be made for future best care.

Through the use of practices such as sustainable harvesting, reforestation, thinning of overcrowded stands, eradication of exotic invasive species, prescribed burning, and proactive monitoring pests and disease, landowners can work with Nature to ensure that their land provides both an environmental and economic return. 

A written management plan, also called a stewardship plan, outlines your forestry intentions and articulates prescriptions for the preservation of wildlife, water quality, and forest legacy while meeting your timber objectives.  A plan not only provides a permanent action record for your use, but also documents management activities for state and federal agencies, for application to the present-use tax program and various cost-share programs, or for use at the time of inheritance or sale.