Owning Wisconsin
Woodlands:Your Guide to Information and Publications
Over the years, many informative
and useful publications, factsheets, and other printed materials have
been created to assist private woodland owners. This website brings many of them
together
and organizes them to help you find the information you need to understand
and manage your land. To read most of the publications on this website, you will
need Adobe's Acrobat Reader which is available free by following this link.
Click on a topic or browse
the index.
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Forest
Management Guidelines |
| The Wisconsin Forest Management
Guidelines (FMG) provides a comprehensive summary of sustainable forestry
techniques for forest types in the state. The Department of Natural Resources
offers the guide, written primarily for professional resource managers,
to encourage high standards of forest management and harvest assistance
to private landowners. |
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The
Essential Collection |
| We asked foresters to identify
the publications that time and again prove to be most useful to woodland
owners. If you are looking for the must read publications,
this is where to start. |
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Forestry
Assistance |
| Finding a professional forester,
Managed Forest Law, cost-share programs, education programs, other woodland
owners, and more... |
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Wildife
on your Land |
| Deer, rabbits, wildlife ecology,
finding and counting wildlife, habitat management, and more... |
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Managing
your Forest |
| Developing a management plan,
selection of harvesting systems, conducting a timber sale, forestry investment,
property taxes, income taxes, and more... |
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MFL:
The Managed Forest Law |
| The Managed Forest Law program
allows you to defer a portion of property taxes through active forest management.
However, restrictions and limitations apply! |
To order
any of the publications found on this website, please click
here.
Questions
or comments about this website? Please click here
for contact information.
This website
is a product of the Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, UWEX Cooperative Extension Service, and Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources Division of Forestry.
