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The Business End of Forests
Article
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Article by guest author Pam Wells
How tailgate tree parties with professional teams helped create a detailed forest management plan, 180 acres of pre-commercial thinning, roadwork repair, and the hope of stream habitat improvement for salmon and trout.
How tailgate tree parties with professional teams helped create a detailed forest management plan, 180 acres of pre-commercial thinning, roadwork repair, and the hope of stream habitat improvement for salmon and trout.
Article
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
State forestry agencies offer information on a wide variety of woodland stewardship topics from bugs to fire to wood markets to rules and regulations to current use taxes.
Event
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 - 9:00 am
until 4:00 pm
Women and Our Woods Workshop for Women Woodland Owners
Hidden Valley Nature Center 131 Egypt Rd., Jefferson, ME 04348, July 30, 2016, 9:00-4:00
$45 ($40 for HVNC, Midcoast Conservancy, MOFGA, MFLT members), $25 Students Scholarships available!!
Women and Our Woods
Hidden Valley Nature Center 131 Egypt Rd., Jefferson, ME 04348, July 30, 2016, 9:00-4:00
$45 ($40 for HVNC, Midcoast Conservancy, MOFGA, MFLT members), $25 Students Scholarships available!!
Women and Our Woods
Event
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 - 9:00 am
until 4:00 pm
Women and Our Woods Workshop for Women Woodland Owners
Hidden Valley Nature Center 131 Egypt Rd., Jefferson, ME 04348, July 30, 2016, 9:00-4:00
$45 ($40 for HVNC, Midcoast Conservancy, MOFGA, MFLT members), $25 Students Scholarships available!!
Women and Our Woods
Empowering Maine’s women woodland owners to steward our forestlands
Hidden Valley Nature Center 131 Egypt Rd., Jefferson, ME 04348, July 30, 2016, 9:00-4:00
$45 ($40 for HVNC, Midcoast Conservancy, MOFGA, MFLT members), $25 Students Scholarships available!!
Women and Our Woods
Empowering Maine’s women woodland owners to steward our forestlands
Article
By:
Liz Jackson
As a forest landowner, you must keep good records in order to take maximum advantage of the special tax treatments available for timber. At a minimum, you should keep a tree farm journal that lists all activities, costs, and incomes from the forest (see example below). You also should have accounts for land, timber, and other capital assets. When setting up timber basis accounts, it is a good idea to use Form T Forest Activities Schedule as a guide. It may be required when claiming depletion of the timber basis after a timber sale or loss.
Article
By:
Tamara Cushing
I hope most of you don’t need to read this but we need to talk about what to do if you had fire on your property in 2015. Normally, taxpayers are only able to recover their investment in timber at the time of a harvest. This is done through the use of depletion. However, if you have a loss on your property, you can also reclaim some of that investment in the form of a casualty loss deduction.
Article
By:
Tamara Cushing
A special provision allows you to deduct up to $10,000 in reforestation expenditures per tax year, per qualified timber property.
Article
By:
Tamara Cushing
In many of my talks with landowners, the topic of certification comes up. It usually comes up because I bring it up and the landowner responds that they don’t know if they are certified, has never heard of certification or is confused by what being certified actually means to them.
Article
By:
Liz Jackson
The national and international wood products industry is demanding wood that is certified sustainable to meet the requests of consumers. Certification by an independent third party helps ensure the land is well managed.
Article
By:
Guest author
Debbie Clay shares her experience of managing her newly acquired woodlands.
Thirty miles down Highway 40, in southern Virginia, the land rolls gently with endless rows of emerald green crops. Billboards proclaim:
“Peanuts – whole sale and retail! Tourists welcome!”
“We’re not nuts, but we sell ‘em”
Thirty miles down Highway 40, in southern Virginia, the land rolls gently with endless rows of emerald green crops. Billboards proclaim:
“Peanuts – whole sale and retail! Tourists welcome!”
“We’re not nuts, but we sell ‘em”
Article
By:
Renée E. D’Aoust
A good management plan does not focus on one item or one goal, but is a series of steps leading to a goal or to several goals. For example, among other items, we manage for forest health and wildlife habitat. Sometimes forest health may mean that we need to perform a regeneration cut, which may mean reduced cover for little critters. Our goals often remain the same, but the strategies to reach those goals may need to change.
Event
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Thu, Sep 6, 2018 - 4:00 pm
until 3:00 pm
The Women and Their Woods Educational Retreat is an in-depth, fun, engaging, and thought-provoking workshop on caring for your woodlands now and into the future. No matter the size of your woodlands or if you’re not yet an owner, join us for four days and three nights of learning, networking, and applying new knowledge about good forest stewardship. Learn more about Women and Their Woods.
Event
Tue, Oct 17, 2017 - 7:00 pm
until 9:00 pm
Location: Taste of India, 2570 Cleveland Ave., St. Paul (Roseville); 651-631-1222
Topics: MyMinnesotaWoods and UMN Master Woodland Owner Program: http://mwop.umn.edu/. The Master Woodland Owner program delivers a comprehensive training curriculum for private woodland owners interested in becoming better stewards of their woods.
RSVP by October 16 to [email protected]
Topics: MyMinnesotaWoods and UMN Master Woodland Owner Program: http://mwop.umn.edu/. The Master Woodland Owner program delivers a comprehensive training curriculum for private woodland owners interested in becoming better stewards of their woods.
RSVP by October 16 to [email protected]
Article
Many of us take family vacation in August. Some of us go to the beach while others prefer time in our woods. As you walk in your woods with your family, consider what do you love about your woods? Maybe it is a special grove of trees, the stream, a good bird watching/listening spot, or a tranquil spot. As you think of that special place, what do you want it to look like when your children or grandchildren inherit the land? A forester can help you write a forest management plan that meets your management goals and ensures your forest remains healthy.
Event
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Sat, Apr 29, 2017 - 8:30 am
until 4:30 pm
Women and our Woods is teaming up with Women of the Maine Outdoors to offer an action-packed workshop for women woodland owners and outdoor enthusiasts! Join us Saturday, April 29 at Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine for engaging, hands-on classes in a variety of forest-based topics.
Article
By:
Guest author
by Taimur Ahmad and Paul Sanford, The Wilderness Society
As the owner of a woodland, you are likely familiar with the recreational value of forests, from hiking, to hunting and fishing, to just admiring Fall colors. State and national public lands offer people a chance to get outside and experience the benefits and beauty of nature – and by opening your woodland to recreation, you can as well.
As the owner of a woodland, you are likely familiar with the recreational value of forests, from hiking, to hunting and fishing, to just admiring Fall colors. State and national public lands offer people a chance to get outside and experience the benefits and beauty of nature – and by opening your woodland to recreation, you can as well.
Event
By:
Amanda Mahaffey
Sat, Oct 15, 2016 - 8:30 am
until 4:30 pm
Women and Our Woods workshop
Saturday, October 15, 2016, 8:30-4:30
Pine Tree Camp, Rome, Maine
Women and our Woods is teaming up with Women of the Maine Outdoors to offer an action-packed workshop for women woodland owners and outdoor enthusiasts! Join us Saturday, October 15 at Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine for engaging, hands-on classes in a variety of forest-based topics. Participation limited to 50.
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Saturday, October 15, 2016, 8:30-4:30
Pine Tree Camp, Rome, Maine
Women and our Woods is teaming up with Women of the Maine Outdoors to offer an action-packed workshop for women woodland owners and outdoor enthusiasts! Join us Saturday, October 15 at Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine for engaging, hands-on classes in a variety of forest-based topics. Participation limited to 50.
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