Transcript Forest PUV Good, Bad and Ugly Mark Megalos Extension Forestry North Carolina State University College of Natural Resources NC STATE UNIVERSITY.

Forest PUV
Good, Bad and Ugly
Mark Megalos
Extension Forestry
North Carolina State University
College of Natural Resources
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This Talk
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What We Are Hearing
Sound Management
Problem Landowners?
Reviewing a Sound Plan
Examples- What Forest
Management Looks Like
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Word on the Street
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Compliance Checks on the Rise
Rooting out unqualified landowners
Greater Scrutiny of Plan Content
Enforcing the January 1st Deadline
Landowner Education Meetings in advance
of revaluation efforts
• Greater Agency Coordination on County
Level
• Tax Offices are Getting Serious about PUV
Sound Management Defined
Production system designed to yield:
• Greatest net return from land
–Consistent with Conservation &
– Long-term Improvement
( page 69 Chapter 5 Sound Mgmnt)
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What is Forest Management?
Care and control to maintain:
– Health & Vigor,
– Product flow,(PUV REQUIREMENT)
– Other Values:
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Soil condition,
Water Quality,
Wildlife,
Beauty
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Two Major Forestry Camps
Intensive
Extensive
Clean
Rows
Pine
Costly
Ag-like
“messy”
“natural”
hardwoods/mixed
Takes Time/ Effort
Park-like
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Sound Forestry is….
• Market / Economically Driven
• An Ordered Cycle
• Follows Natural Limits
• Matched to Soil / Site
•Fields of Pine
•Bottoms of Hardwood
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A Plan is Required
• Must be sound and practical
• “Management” is broadly defined
Natural regeneration OK
Mixed Stands OK
Plantations OK…..
If the plan is sound and implemented!
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Private Land is Problematic
14 + million acres
300,000+ landowners• Dancing to their own beat
• Following their own timeline
• Placing low priority on Timber
Management
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Troublesome PUV Applicants
• Woodland Retreat Owners have varied
reasons for owning forestland:
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Perfect PUV Applicants
“Working the land” are a better fit for
PUV
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Sound Management- Starts
with a Forestry Plan
1. Landowner objectives
2. Maps, plats, aerial photos
3. Forest/stand inventory/description
4. Forest management prescriptions
5. Harvest dates, methods and
regeneration strategies
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“Sound forest management”
clause
• Enforced by the county tax office via
a forest management plan
• Compliance checks
• Landowner’s responsibility to
implement their forest management
plan
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WE NEEDN’T APOLOGIZE
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PUV is Production
ORIENTED
• Have to Qualify to
Receive the Benefits
Are Forestry Plans Meeting the
Mark?
 Landowner objectives ( timber)
 Maps, plats, aerial photos
 Forest/stand inventory/description
Forest management prescriptions
 Harvest dates, methods and
regeneration strategies
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Sound Management- Silviculture
PRACTICE of
• Establish
• Tend
• Harvest
• Reproduce
FOREST STANDS
( of Desired Characteristics)
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FULL
CIRCLE
The Sign of “Good Forestry”
• Trees are Healthy
• Trees are Vigorous
• Products Being Produced
• New Forest Seedlings Being
established?
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Young Pine – Hardwood
Vigorous – “Pointed tops”
Evidence of
Harvest
Residual
Products on
Site
PRODUCT UTILIZATION
EVIDENCE OF HARVEST
Young Pine / Hardwood
LONGLEAF SEEDLINGS
How to ID “Good Forestry
• Marketable Species Being
Grown
–Pine, Oaks, Poplar
• Economical – People Make $$
• Sustainable - Regrowth
• Verifiable- You Can See It
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See it From Your Desktop
DESKTOP VIEW
HARVEST
ROADS
Desktop View w/ Buffers
Desktop Hardwood View
Middle-aged Yellow Poplar
White Pines on Ridge
Partial Harvest - Thinning
RIGHT TREE – RIGHT SITE
You Provide Value & Credibility
• Accept Only Worthy Plans
• Enforce Eligibility Requirements
• Use the All Resources at your disposal for
Compliance Checks
– GIS, Land Records
– NCDFR- For. Mgmt Accomplishment Reports
• Remind Landowners that the Plan is a
quasi-contract
THANK YOU!!!
Forestry Extension
919-513-1202
[email protected]
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