Forest Management Plans What Qualifies for PUV

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Forest Management Plans- What Qualifies for PUV

• Mark Megalos
• Extension Forestry
• North Carolina State University
• College of Natural Resources

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This Talk

• Discussion of Sound Management
• What it Means
• Landowner Motivations
• Sound Plan
• INTENSIVE vs. EXTENSIVE FORESTRY
• Examples- What it Looks Like

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Sound Management Defined

• A program of production designed to yield
• Greatest net return from land
• Consistent with Conservation
• Long-term Improvement
• ( page 69 Chapter 5 Sound Mgmnt)

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What is Forest Management?

• Care and control of Woodland to maintain
• Health,
• Vigor,
• Product flow,
• Other Values
• Soil condition,
• Water Quality,
• Wildlife,
• Beauty

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Getting To Sound Management?

• Silviculture
• ART, SCIENCE and PRACTICE of
• Establishing
• Tending
• Reproducing
• FOREST STANDS
• ( Desired Characteristics)

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Two Major Forestry Camps

• Intensive Extensive
• Clean messy
• Rows natural
• Pine hardwoods/mixed
• Costly Takes Time/ Effort
• Ag-like Park-like

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Intensive? Extensive?

• Is One Better?
• Is One Ideal?
• IT DEPENDS!!!
• ( There is room for both in PUV)

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PUV Mandates Product Flow

• We know that,.but landowners have many varied
  reasons for owning forestland
• Family legacy 65.6
• Aesthetics 58.7
• Land investment 56.3
• Nature protection 49.7
• Privacy 48.4
• Timber production 42.7
• 2005 Southern Region

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PUV Mandates Product Flow

• What About Non-Timber Reasons?
• Hunting or fishing 42.4
• Part of farm 40.2
• Part of home or cabin 28.2
• Non-timber forest products 10.2
• Firewood production 10.7
• Other recreation 27.5

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A Plan is Required

• Must be sound and practical
• Management is broadly defined
• Natural regeneration OK
• Mixed Stands OK
• Plantations OK..
• If the plan is sound and implemented!

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Sound forest management clause

• Enforced by the county tax office via a forest
  management plan
• Compliance checks
• Landowners responsibility to implement their
  forest management plan

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Sound Management-Forestry Plan

• Landowner objectives
• Maps, plats, aerial photos
• Forest/stand inventory/description
• Forest management prescriptions
• Harvest dates, methods and regeneration
  strategies

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Forestry is a mix of

• Art
• Multiple Options
• Variable Intensity
• Subject to Landowner Preferences
• Eye of the Beholder

• SCIENCE
• Soil / Site Dependent
• Market Driven
• Economically Driven
• Ordered
• Follows Natural Limits

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How to Tell if its Good Forestry

• Are the Trees Healthy?
• Are Trees Vigorous?
• Products Being Removed?
• New Seedlings Being established?

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Young Pine Hardwood Vigorous Pointed tops
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Evidence of Harvest
Residual Products on Site
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PRODUCT UTILIZATION
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Young Pine / Hardwood
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LONGLEAF SEEDLINGS
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How to Tell if its Good Forestry

• Are Marketable Species Being Grown?
• Is it Economical ?
• Sustainable ?
• Verifiable ?

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What it Looks Like from Your Desktop
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DESKTOP VIEW
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Desktop View w/ Buffers
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Desktop Hardwood View
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Middle-aged Yellow Poplar White Pines on Ridge
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Partial Harvest - Thinning
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RIGHT TREE RIGHT SITE
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THANK YOU!!!

• Forestry Extension
• 919-513-1202
• mark.megalos_at_ncsu.edu

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