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Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners: Why you should give a rip about

Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners: Why you should give a rip about. Andy Perleberg WSU Extension Educator 360-428-4270 andyp@wsu.edu. TOOLS. Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners “Most landowners want to do what is right for the land” Don Hanley, 1983.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners: Why you should give a rip about

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  1. Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners:Why you should give a rip about Andy Perleberg WSU Extension Educator 360-428-4270 andyp@wsu.edu TOOLS

  2. Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners“Most landowners want to do what is right for the land”Don Hanley, 1983 • Estate Planning • Regulatory Issues & Stability • Management Planning & Implementation • Insufficient Educational & Technical Assistance Opportunities • Development Pressures • Loss of Markets/Fluctuating Prices • Recreational Demands

  3. Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners“Most landowners want to do what is right for the land”Don Hanley, 1983 • Estate Planning • Regulatory Issues & Stability • Management Planning & Implementation • Insufficient Educational & Technical Assistance Opportunities • Development Pressures • Loss of Markets/Fluctuating Prices • Recreational Demands

  4. The real work of the world — the way we live our daily lives — has been changed by tools and by the people who create them.

  5. The real work of the world — the way we live our daily lives — has been changed by tools and by the people who create them. Woodland Forestry Consultants

  6. Appropriate Technology?

  7. Problem 90, 000 Owners 3.1 Million Acres

  8. You care about your forest resources Tools make it possible to steward your forest with better: Understanding Skill/ Quality Efficiency Safety The positive results of your stewardship (of the forest resources) is directly proportional to the protection and enhancement you and society will enjoy from your forest

  9. pre-commercial thinning • pruning • fire hazard reduction • snag creation • dead wood placement • herbicide or fertilizer application • seeding roads and trails • tree planting • and other improvement work.

  10. Smallest-of-small Scale Kler Family Photos

  11. Not-So-Small Scale Fairweather Forestry

  12. Achieve Your Objectives Clear, high quality sawlogs Lush understory vegetation Aesthetically pleasing Improved hunting sight distance Andy Perleberg

  13. But Used Incorrectly or at wrong time… Andy Perleberg

  14. …or with disregard to safety

  15. …And sometimes you can go overboard

  16. Technology Tools Landscape Management System www.ruraltech.org

  17. Landscape Management SystemLMS is sophisticated software With helps along the way “Free” software - http://www.ruraltech.org/tools/

  18. Even Signs can be a toolidentifying function, ownership, and contribution

  19. Continue to contribute and enjoy natural resources goods and services Don Hanley Collection

  20. Andy Perleberg andyp@wsu.edu 360-428-4270 20

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