5 Creative Ways to Make Money With Forest Land

5 Creative Ways to Make Money With Forest Land

Forest land is possibly one of the most personally-rewarding assets one can own. They can provide a source of lumber, recreation, and even meaning as you watch your trees grow. Even so, many owners of forest land understandably want to get more than just personal reward: they want financial reward. The most common and well-known…

Four Ways Logging Can Benefit Your Forest

Four Ways Logging Can Benefit Your Forest

As a landowner, logging can be one of the most consequential decisions you make for your land and forest. Thus, it is common to have apprehension over the decision and worry that logging will be irreversibly damaging to your beloved forest. While this can be a real concern, done responsibly with careful silvicultural considerations, logging…

The Ultimate Guide to Thinning Your Forest

The Ultimate Guide to Thinning Your Forest

Thinning your forest is one of the most important silvicultural operations you can conduct on your land. It is an intermediate treatment that focuses on selectively removing trees to reduce competition and allow residual trees to flourish. However, the process is more complicated than simply cutting out a few trees. The stand dynamics and silvics…

Selective vs Selection Cutting: Mind the Difference

Selective vs Selection Cutting: Mind the Difference

There is a common confusion between two terms commonly used in forestry: Selective cutting and selection cutting. While the two terms are often used interchangeably (usually by laymen), they couldn’t be more different. Selective cutting is a non-specific description of partial harvesting that usually refers to high-grading or other destructive harvesting practices. Selection cutting, however,…

The Four Timber Measurement Units You Need to Know

The Four Timber Measurement Units You Need to Know

Timber truly is one of the most ancient industries around. We have been harvesting and utilizing wood for energy and construction for millennia, but only recently has forestry itself become an established science and practice. Like any science, measurement is key to successful timber management, but that’s where the simplicity ends. Timber measurement units are…