Natural resource management
The Land Loss Prevention Project has been involved, over the last four years, in a collaborative process of outreach to limited resource landowners with woodlands. In our work with farmers and other estate planning workshops , weplan to utilize a sustainable approach that assesses both current use and future planning. This kind of holistic approach would examine financial planning, management opportunities, disaster planning and estate planning.
We want to continue our partnership with North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T in the development of educational materials and providing workshops for landowners around forestry issues. We wouldprovide information to individual clients and communities about conservation opportunities and forestland management. Forestry management tools would also be incorporated into estate planning workshops.
Forestry and Conservation
Having trees on the land can be a valuable resource!
Landowners should be aware that there are free services from the North Carolina Division of Forestry. The State can assist you with finding a consulting forester, and certain services related to your forestland can be done at no cost to you.
Landowners should consider all the possible uses of their land. Ideas to consider include:
- Marketing of pine straw
- Hunting Leases
- Conservation Easements
More ideas [PDF]:
http://www.ncsu.edu/woodlands/treetips/goods.pdf
For more publications on woodlands, including Spanish Translations, click here! http://www.ncsu.edu/woodlands/forestry.html
Additional resources on natural resource management and estate planning:
- Conservation Easements
- Black Family Land Trust
- The Conservation Trust for North Carolina
- NC Division of Forest Resources
- Tree Tips, Keeping the Family in Family Forest (co-developed by LLPP as a part of the Sustainable Woodlands Project)
- The Sustainable Woodlands Projectwas a joint project of North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T that focused on assisting limited resource farmers in eastern North Carolina and Virginia to "take full advantage of forest management opportunities" in an environmentally sustainable and profitable manner. The Sustainable Woodlands Project produced a number of publications-- some of which were prepared with LLPP's assistance -- that were specifically directed at farmers.
