Transcript Sugarbush Planning is Like a Vacation How Planning

Forest Planning
is Like Planning a Vacation
How Planning Improves the Outcome
Peter J. Smallidge
NYS Extension Forester and Director, Arnot
Teaching and Research Forest
[email protected]
www.ForestConnect.info
Focus on the Target not the Bow
What is A
Management Plan
“A path to the target”
The Benefits of a Plan
• establish and clarify goals
• document woodlot health and condition
• document your active role (for IRS)
• strategize future possibilities
• schedule activities
• required for those in 480-a (for NYS)
Don’t worry…it isn’t all that difficult
Let’s Plan a Vacation
• What do you want to
accomplish?
– This is the target, all
questions relate to the
target !!
• Who should be part of the
discussion?
• What resources do you
currently have?
– Assets and their condition
• What actions need to occur?
– Critical vs. desired actions
– Sequence
Let’s Plan for Your Forest
1. What do you want to accomplish?
Desired “products”?
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Serenity?
Recreation?
Timber?
Wildlife?
Let’s Plan for Your Forest
2. Who else should be involved in the
discussion?
Spouse
Business partner
Family members (heirs)
Let’s Plan for Your Forest
3. What resources do you currently have?
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Boundary line surveyed?
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Sketch a map
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Management units (“stands”)
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Acres
Dominate vegetation
Tree density, sparse or thick
Specific objectives?
Soil advantages or disadvantages?
Equipment and people to help
Sullivan publication, field activity
Let’s Plan for Your Forest
4. Actions and time table
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Which are critical?
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Do any need to happen before another?
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What is the best sequence?
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most important to the vision
interest
access
Let’s Plan for Your Forest
5.What additional resources do you need to obtain?
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Soils map
Topographic map
Aerial photograph
Educational
materials
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CCE woodlot
management
Maple manual
Videos
• Training courses
– Game of logging
– Master Forest Owner
– Timber income &
taxes
• Boundary survey
• Lists of
plants/animals
• Other?
Who Can Help?
Technical Assistance
• Department of
Environmental
Conservation
• Private sector foresters
• Cornell Cooperative
Extension
• Natural Resources
Conservation Service
• Soil and Water
Conservation Districts
Work With Others
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CCE Master Forest Owners
NY Forest Owners Assoc.
THRIFT
CFA
• professional foresters
• “Trained Logger
Certification”
• Neighbors
• Family
What Should I Do Next?
• Review your answers and discuss them with
family
• Join NYFOA
• Collect a file folder of information (maps,
photos, deeds, history, etc.)
• Contact SWCD for soils and aerial photos
• Contact Cooperative Extension for catalog
• Contact MFO for a free visit
• Contact DEC for a free visit