management plans and forest inventory

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Management plans are funny things. They can be written on the back of a napkin, carried in somebody's head or take up a 3 inch notebook.

No matter what form they take, the two most important parts of a management plan are understanding an owner's goals and defining the resource.  

Understanding ownership goals starts with good client-forester communications. Defining the resource requires an appropriate inventory.

Every piece of property cannot meet every goal of ownership, but proper guidance and input can help either adjust ownership goals or define the steps it will take to make them happen.

We prepare our management plans using GPS-enabled data collectors and publicly available resource information.  From importing property shape file information into the USDA Soil Survey Website to generate a site specific soils report to utilizing the hydrography information available through Cornell University to accessing the NYS-Department of Environmental Conservation's multiple resource web portals, we pride ourselves in understanding all of the resource concerns of a project area.

Once all these factors and more have been considered, a time schedule for activity implementation becomes the guiding force for the management plan.