For owners of woodlands managed for timber production. There are several good reasons to harvest trees.

Deciding how to manage an invasive species infestation can be intimidating. Thankfully, there is help available.

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).

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

A special provision allows you to deduct up to $10,000 in reforestation expenditures per tax year, per qualified timber property.

In a world where trees are competing with the Kardashians, Halo, Facetime, Angry Birds, constant texting, Facebook, YouTube, and on, and on, and on, it’s not hard to decipher why kids are not stimulated by the forest.