Forest
Stewardship Coached Planning
Coached
Planning is a six to nine week short course (depending on location)
designed to assist private forest landowners in writing their
management plans.
Participants will identify
management goals and put together a comprehensive forest management
plan. Plans may qualify you for cost-share assistance for plan
implementation; recognition as a Stewardship Forest; and reduced
current property tax rates.
Course
Topics:
• Introduction
to Forest Stewardship and personal goal setting
• Maps and property descriptions
• Introduction to forest ecology
• Inventory of forest resources, field equipment and tree
measurements
• Silvicultural techniques and alternatives and site regeneration
• Wildlife habitat identification, inventory, and enhancement
• Forest soils
• Riparian areas and water quality issues
• Forest health
• Special forest products cultural resources
• Legal issues, forest practice regulations and incentive
programs
What
will I learn?
• How to evaluate
your forest's health
• How to evaluate fish and wildlife uses on your property
and improve habitat
• How to identify silvicultural alternatives and when they
should be applied
• How to identify common forest plants
•How to protect soil and water
• Your rights and responsibilities as a forest property
owner
Forest Stewardship
Program — Coached Planning is a collaborative education
program for Washington State family forest landowners. The program
is conducted by WSU Extension in cooperation with the Department
of Natural Resources Forest Stewardship Program, Rural Technology
Initiative (in collaboration with UW and WSU), US Forest Service
Cooperative Programs, Washington State Parks, Conservation Districts,
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, and consulting foresters.
Family forest
owners manage their land for a variety of reasons: some desire
a private and wildfire safe setting to live; some are pleased
to endow a variety of habitats for fish and wildlife to thrive;
others enjoy periodic revenues from harvesting timber. Most landowners
discover over time that these management objectives are not mutually
exclusive. Does this sound like you?
WSU Extension
and Washington Department of Natural Resources periodically offer
Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Short-courses in Northeast
Washington.
Participants
"do their homework" each week, where they identify management
goals and put together comprehensive forest management plans to
accomplish those goals. Completed plans may qualify landowners
for cost-share assistance for plan implementation, recognition
as a "Stewardship Forest", and possibly reduced "current
use" property tax rates. Topics range from personal goal
setting to forest health and legal issues.
Forest Stewardship Program—Coached Planning is a collaborative
education program for Washington State non-industrial private
forest landowners. The program is conducted by WSU Extension in
cooperation with the DNR Forest Stewardship Program, Conservation
Districts, USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service, and consulting
foresters.
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