What is the right thing or best thing to do on my forested property?
This is the fundamental question that most forest landowners really want answered. The answer depends on a great number of variables most important of which is what are the landowner?s objective for their property. Why do you own the property? How would you like it to look 5, 10, 25 or even 100 years in the future? Decisions made today can have impacts for many decades. It is wise to make these choices based on the best available information that you can obtain. Location, access, soil type, forest type, ecology, economics, and legal issues all play a part in your decisions. No single answer works for all landowners. Many people change their views over time as they develop a better understanding of the capability and limitations of their land. The best single thing that you as a landowner can do is to learn more about your property, how your property fits into the ecological, economic, and legal environment around it. With this knowledge you will be better able to come up with tasks tha
