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Forest Management 1: Idaho Timber Facts
This edition of the Forest Forum highlights harvest summaries in Idaho for public and industrial forestland from 1997 to 2006.
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Forest Management 2: Planning a Timber Harvest
Informed family forest landowners know you can harvest trees, make a profit and still have a healthy thriving woodlot that looks good. Sound impossible? Well,
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Forest Management 3: Timber Sale Contracts
Too often timber harvests are conducted with no more than a nod and a handshake between the parties involved. Although this procedure sometimes works, a
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Forest Management 4: Locating a Timber Sale Purchaser
Experienced landowners know that a successful timber harvest requires planning. After management objectives, silvicultural prescriptions, and contractual requirements are formulated, a purchaser must be found.
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Forest Management 5: Administering a Timber Harvest
In technical terms, timber sale administration is the supervision of harvest activities to achieve silvicultural and economic objectives through sound logging practices and proper log
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Forest Management 6: Consulting Foresters
A consulting forester knows the technical aspects of forestry, including the inner workings of the marketplace for wood products. They are experienced and skilled and
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Forest Management 7: Tree Planting
The key to a successful planting program is to provide a micro-environment that fosters the survival and subsequent growth of the planted seedlings. While young
Forest Management 8: Summary of Cost Share Programs
To the average forest landowner the vast array of cost-share programs must seem like a jumbled soup of alphabet acronyms. There’s, CRP, EQIP, CSP, HFRP
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Forest Management 9: Snag Management
A snag is a standing dead or dying tree. It may have died because of wildfire, insects, disease, lightning, or a combination of factors. Regardless