Healthy Forest Management
The process of establishing and maintaining a healthy forest brings opportunities and challenges from planning all the way through harvest management. What are your immediate and long term goals for the forest? How will climate related conditions like floods,...
Benefits of a Forestry Consultant
Stephen Greer, County Extension Director, UF/IFAS Extension Santa Rosa Forest landowners can use the services of a professional consulting forester in several ways. The use of a consulting forester can be justified by the timber stand’s...
Reducing Your Risk of Wildfire Damage
With wet growing seasons and multiple significant storms in the past several years bringing down many trees and/or limbs, it is quite likely that unmanaged forest lands throughout the Panhandle have a high fuel load for potential forest fires. These high fuel...
Healthy Forest and Land Management Decisions
Managing a healthy forest is one of many landowner decisions that need to be made that are determined through the owner’s long-term outcomes and benefits. These decisions not only impact the landowner, but the community and region.