Managing Your Woodland

Creating a woodland that you want can be very involved. Much depends on your wants and needs and the condition and capability of the woodland as it exists.

Foresters are uniquely qualified by training and experience to help landowners sort through ideas and help decide what can and should be done.

Landowners can have varied objectives for their woodlands. While certainly not an exhaustive list, the following represents a potential list of management objectives:

• Wildlife habitat/viewing
• Timber production
• Rare Threatened or Endangered Species habitat
• Hunting
• Recreation

Should management of the timber be involved, whether for wildlife habitat or purely for income, a forester can see that you achieve the desired outcome while protecting other features of the forest like nearby streams.