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Forest PUV Good, Bad and Ugly
Mark MegalosExtension Forestry
North Carolina State UniversityCollege of Natural Resources
NC STATE UNIVERSITY
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This Talk• 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• 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
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Sound Management DefinedProduction 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:
• Soil condition,• Water Quality, • Wildlife,• Beauty
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Two Major Forestry CampsIntensive ExtensiveClean “messy”Rows “natural”Pine hardwoods/mixedCostly Takes Time/ EffortAg-like 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 OKMixed Stands OKPlantations OK…..
If the plan is sound and implemented!
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Private Land is Problematic
14 + million acres300,000+ 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 objectives2. Maps, plats, aerial photos3. Forest/stand inventory/description4. Forest management prescriptions5. 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• PUV is Production ORIENTED
• Have to Qualify to Receive the Benefits
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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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FULLCIRCLE
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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 – HardwoodVigorous – “Pointed tops”
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Evidence of
Harvest
Residual
Products on
Site
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PRODUCT UTILIZATION
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EVIDENCE OF HARVEST
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Young Pine / Hardwood
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LONGLEAF SEEDLINGS
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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
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DESKTOP VIEW
HARVEST ROADS
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Desktop View w/ Buffers
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Desktop Hardwood View
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Middle-aged Yellow Poplar
White Pines on Ridge
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Partial Harvest - Thinning
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RIGHT TREE – RIGHT SITE
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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