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Achieving sweet success with your maples
Learn how to manage your forest to maximize maple sap production by creating healthy and vigorously growing trees.
An action plan
Schedule work towards your goals for your woodland over the next several years or decades
Conducting A Successful Timber Sale
Timber Harvesting is an Important Tool for Woodland Owners. When conducted with care and good planning, harvesting trees allows you, as a landowner, to enjoy your woodlands while keeping them healthy and meeting your ownership goals.
Conducting a successful timber sale video
02:42 Reasons for harvesting trees 07:18 Benefits of a timber harvest 09:45 Common mistakes encountered when harvesting trees 14:20 9 steps to a successful timber sale 30:00 Sale methods: scaled sale vs. lump sum sale 45:26 Income tax considerations
Cutting and selling your own logs
There are many steps to take and things to learn for successfully cutting and selling your own logs.
Dealing with storm damaged trees
Often a storm will leave a tangled mess of trees that require patience and special attention to clear safely and efficiently.
Determine Your Basis And Keep More Timber Income
Knowing your timber’s worth at the time you acquired it, your “timber basis”, can reduce the amount of taxes you owe on timber sale income. This publication explains how to use your basis when filing income taxes if you did not do so at the time of acquisition.
Determining the value of a log
For determining the value of individual logs (trees can be made up of more than one log), the three main factors are grade (quality), scale (an estimate of the quantity of lumber within a log), and species.
Do I Need a Permit for Harvesting Timber?
It is your responsibility to know your local ordinances and what regulations you may need to follow
Factors Influencing Timber Prices for Landowners
When a landowner begins the timber sale process, a primary questions is often “How much can I expect to get for my wood?” This publication aims to help landowners understand the factors behind the bids they will receive for their wood