challenges and opportunities for family forest owners: why you should give a rip about
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Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners: Why you should give a rip about. Andy Perleberg WSU Extension Educator 360-428-4270 [email protected]. TOOLS. Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners “Most landowners want to do what is right for the land” Don Hanley, 1983. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Challenges and Opportunities for Family Forest Owners:
Why you should give a rip about
TOOLS
Andy Perleberg
WSU Extension Educator
360-428-4270
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
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
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.
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
Appropriate Technology?
Problem90, 000
Owners
3.1 Million
Acres
You care about your forest resources
Tools make it possible to steward your forest with better:
UnderstandingSkill/ QualityEfficiencySafety
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
•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.
Smallest-of-small Scale
Kler Family Photos
Not-So-Small Scale
Fairweather Forestry
Andy Perleberg
Clear, high quality sawlogs
Lush understory vegetation
Aesthetically pleasing
Improved hunting sight distance
Achieve Your Objectives
But Used Incorrectly or at wrong time…
Andy Perleberg
…or with disregard to safety
…And sometimes you can go overboard
Landscape Management System
www.ruraltech.org
Technology Tools
Landscape Management SystemLMS is sophisticated software
“Free” software - http://www.ruraltech.org/tools/
With helps along the way
Even Signs can be a toolidentifying function, ownership, and
contribution
Continue to contribute and enjoy natural resources goods and services
Don Hanley Collection
