A Forest Management Plan is tailored to your goals, visions, and objectives, while based on sound scientific data collected from your property.
Each vegetation or tree community found on your property will be examined during the inventory process and analyzed to determine the best use and management potential. In addition, over the process of creating your personalized management plan, you will receive products such as a detailed soil maps, aerial photographs of your property, road and trail maps, an analysis of forest health, and an inventory of invasive species if they exist.
Management plans help give direction to future generations. If you intend to pass your property down to family members, what better gift to give than guidance and direction as to how the property should be managed. Having the forethought and direction eases the process of land transactions and passes down the goals and overall vision of the original owners.
Cost share programs are available through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with the Forest Stewardship Program and through the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service with the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. These programs can help offset the cost of developing the management plan for your property. Depending on the details of your property, you may also qualify for a tax exemption through the Qualified Forest Property program. For more information and to see if your property qualifies for any of the programs mentioned above, please contact Darling Forestry.
Each vegetation or tree community found on your property will be examined during the inventory process and analyzed to determine the best use and management potential. In addition, over the process of creating your personalized management plan, you will receive products such as a detailed soil maps, aerial photographs of your property, road and trail maps, an analysis of forest health, and an inventory of invasive species if they exist.
Management plans help give direction to future generations. If you intend to pass your property down to family members, what better gift to give than guidance and direction as to how the property should be managed. Having the forethought and direction eases the process of land transactions and passes down the goals and overall vision of the original owners.
Cost share programs are available through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with the Forest Stewardship Program and through the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service with the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. These programs can help offset the cost of developing the management plan for your property. Depending on the details of your property, you may also qualify for a tax exemption through the Qualified Forest Property program. For more information and to see if your property qualifies for any of the programs mentioned above, please contact Darling Forestry.
Components of a Forest Management Plan:
- Inventory the timber to assess the species distribution, diameter distribution, stocking levels and overall health.
- Distinguishing timber type boundaries.
- Management recommendations for each timber type.
- Tree and shrub planting recommendations.
- Grassland and pollinator planting information.
- Assessment of watershed characteristics.
- Invasive plant inventory.
- Forest health diagnosis.
- Searching for survey boundaries.
- Assessing wildlife habitat.
- Threatened and endangered species information.
- Desired future conditions of the property.
- Wildlife habitat improvements.
- Topography analysis.
- Wetland descriptions.
- Watershed assessment.
- Potential wetland restoration.
- Road and trail mapping.
- Cultural resource review.
- Legal descriptions of the property.
- Past harvest history.
- Soil map and soil profile descriptions.