3.2 Getting started
3.3 Getting to know your woodland
3.4 Forest management planning
- 3.4.1 Download a list of Maine licensed foresters in your area
- 3.4.2 Developing a Forest Management Plan
- 3.4.3 Maine's Tree Growth Tax Law
- 3.4.4 National Timber Tax website
- 3.4.5 Sample WoodsWISE Stewardship Plan
- 3.4.6 Cost-share funds for a Woodland Resource Action Plan
- 3.4.7 NRCS Cost-share programs
- 3.4.8 American Forest Foundation's My Land Plan tool
- 3.4.9 Women owning woodlands
3.5 Timber harvesting
- 3.5.1 Timber sales and how they work
- 3.5.2 Northern Woodlands: Growing Value in Your Woods
- 3.5.3 Am I ready to harvest?
- 3.5.4 Cutting firewood on your woodlot
- 3.5.5 How to harvest successfolly
- 3.5.6 Maine stumpage price reports
- 3.5.7 SFI EZ-Bar Waterbar Installation
- 3.5.8 Northeast Master Logger Certification Program
3.6 Forest management tools for woodland owners
- 3.6.1 Managing woodlots for wildlife
- 3.6.2 Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine: Guidelines for Land Management
- 3.6.3 Focus Species Forestry: A Guide to Integrating Timber and Biodiversity Management in Maine
- 3.6.4 Audubon Vermont's Forest Bird Initiative
- 3.6.5 The Maine Black Bear
- 3.6.6 Forest management strategies for climate change impacts
- 3.6.7 Maine Master Loggers
- 3.6.8 Maine Certified Logging Professionals
- 3.6.9 Harvest plan template and checklist
- 3.6.10 Primer on the negative effects of diameter-limit cutting
- 3.6.11 Forest biomass guidelines
3.7 Planning a legacy for your woodland
- 3.7.1 How to begin the process
- 3.7.2 Checklist of information
- 3.7.3 Conservation easements
- 3.7.4 Maine Land Trust Network
- 3.7.5 Land Trust Alliance definition of conservation easement
- 3.7.6 Conservation Easements Keep Working Forests Working
- 3.7.7 Planning Family Forests: How to Keep Woodlands Intact and in the Family (2013 Forestry Press) by Thom J. McEvoy