Forest management plans are an integral part of successful forest management. All forest land owners should consider having a professional forest management plan created for them.

Many wood lot owners don’t understand why they should employ the services of a professional forester. Integrated Forest Management (IFM) has several licensed, professional foresters in the States of Maine and New Hampshire who can help a wood lot owner navigate the many options available to them to implement a successful management strategy.

Integrating timber management and biodiversity conservation can be a challenge, to say the least. There are a myriad of biodiversity variables to consider and integrate with a variety of timber management approaches. Likewise, there are a great variety of documents that describe either biodiversity or timber management, but relatively few that attempt to meld the [...]

Did you know that,
“Invasive species are the second-greatest threat to global biodiversity after loss of habitat. Invading plants out compete native species by hogging sunlight, nutrients, and space. They change animal habitat by eliminating native foods, altering cover, and destroying nesting opportunities. Some invaders are so aggressive they leave [...]

In an effort to increase the knowledge and awareness for forest landowners about water quality protection in the context of forest management and harvesting, please take a look at the publication, Best Management Practices for Forestry: Protecting Maine’s Water Quality - [PDF - 5 Mb].

This document was published by the Maine Department of Conservation, Maine [...]