Do you need help planning your timber harvest? Do you want your timber harvest to be ecologically and economically sound?
Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) can help you through the whole timber harvesting process. ELMS can conduct a timber inventory for you pre-harvest, estimate timber volumes and give landowners estimates of the value of their timber based on these calculated volumes and current stumpage prices in your area.
ELMS will layout your timber harvest for you ensuring that your timber harvest can be economically successful and ecologically sound. ELMS foresters model timber harvest plans after natural disturbance patterns, ensuring that forests see harvest impacts that could occur naturally. Planning harvests this way provides ideal conditions for regeneration and growth. Ecological management brings efficient growth, while providing ecosystem services and wildlife habitat. ELMS plans and design, landings, stream crossings, skid trails, and marks prescribed silviculture and management boundary lines.
ELMS also provides landowners with advice on timber sale contracts to ensure that landowners are getting a fair deal on timber prices, close-out requirements, BMP measures, and duration of harvest, among other significant contract terms. ELMS may also be able to help you select a reputable logger for your timber in your area or review the work of a logger you are considering entering into contract with.
Do you want to see that the work gets done correctly and close-out work gets implemented? Do you want to see that Best Management Practices and State & Municipal Timber Harvesting Laws are followed during your timber harvest/management? Do you want to make sure you fill out the proper state notifications at the end of your timber harvest?
ELMS utilizes it’s experience supervising timber harvests to see that all BMPs, municipal & state laws are complied with and exceeded when logging contractors are implementing their work.
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