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The Woodlot Management Handbook: Making the Most of Your Wooded Property for Conservation, Income or Both (Revised, Expanded)

Name: The Woodlot Management Handbook: Making the Most of Your Wooded Property for Conservation, Income or Both (Revised, Expanded)
Brand: Firefly Books
SKU: 9781554075539
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Making the Most of Your Wooded Property for Conservation, Income or Both

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How to get the most out of a parcel of land by growing trees for timber, selling firewood and preserving land for future generations.

A private woodlot may range from 5 to 500 acres, and they are extremely common.

Hilts and Mitchell's book is a personal "get out and walk your woods" plan. The authors answer landowners' most common questions on:

Basic conservation
Nature appreciation
Reforestation
Recreational use
Moderate forestry
Timber management
Assessing your own woodland
Identifying trees
Specific techniques for maintaining wildlife habitat, such as snags, logs, den trees and bush piles.

There is also extensive information on landscape ecology, natural succession and hardwood plantings. In this expanded and updated second edition, the changing views and values of woodlots are explored, covering topics such as:

Woodlots in the broader landscape
Moving to ecological restoration
Managing conifer plantations
Watching for endangered species
Dealing with invasive insects and plants.

The Woodlot Management Handbook is the definitive book on this important topic.

Review

This revised edition of The Woodlot Management Handbook is useful, and it fills a niche for woodland owners who are new to forestry and for those contemplating a woodland purchase. -- Rob Bryan ― Northern Woodlands Published On: 2010-04-01

The second edition of this guide to private woodland conservation and management is updated to reflect changes in technology and better access to information that has become available in the ten years since its original printing. Focusing on the ecosystems of the northeastern portion of the United States, this volume provides information on ecologically conscious and economically viable stewardship of small woodlots. Covering such topics as environmental sustainability and habitat conservation, timber and firewood harvest principles, reforestation and trails, pests and poachers, the work also offers advice on buying woodland properties and developing woodland stewardship plans that provide for the long-term conservation of the environment. Hilts teaches resource science at the Ontario Agricultural College and Mitchell is a researcher at the University of Guelph. ― Book News Published On: 2011-04-01

[Review of previous edition:] The overall thesis of the book is that good land stewardship maximizes both ecological conservation and economic returns. ― Choice Published On: 1999-02-01

About the Author

Stewart Hilts teaches in the Department of Land Resources Science at the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph.

Peter Mitchell is a research associate at the Centre for Land and Water Stewardship, University of Guelph. Together, Mitchell and Hilts have been designing and carrying out programs to support the stewardship efforts of rural landowners since 1991.