Woodland News

The Benefits of Boundary Line Maintenance

Still the best way to sell timber

Recently communities around the northeastern United States have been faced with growing deer populations and seemingly endless deer inundating communities and affecting farmers. If left unchecked these deer populations will increase, compound the problems for people, and negatively affect the habitat for other wildlife.

Forest managers have many techniques and strategies at their disposal to help landowners meet their forest management goals. Each particular woodlot has its own unique characteristics and undoubtedly requires its own unique forest management prescription.

Although investing in timberland is certainly not a new concept, activities on Wall Street and in the pension fund world indicate that it continues to be a popular alternative investment.

In part 1 of this two part post we talked about the aspects revolving around how timber appreciates, but there is also the bare land to consider.

Trees…They decorate our urban landscapes, live in our rural forests, and create beauty in our parks, cemeteries, and backyards. Yet they are all vulnerable to invasive bugs and evolved diseases that threaten their health.

Tree injection or tree trunk injection is a new way people are protecting their trees. In today’s world there is no shortage of invasive species and tree diseases. Seemingly every year we are faced with a new inundation of bugs or diseases threating our trees and each year they spread further and further. Whether they are trees in our rural forests or trees that make up our urban landscapes we need to protect them or risk losing them.

New York Forest landowners interested in reducing property taxes on their woodlots should consider enrolling their properties in New York’s Section 480a Program. 

A growing demand