Small Woodland Management

ByAngela Gupta, U of MN ExtensionBarb Spears, TWF Consulting, LLC

Art Widerstrom, MN DNR

Resources

Resource List

Overview

What is Small Woodland Management Your Goals Assessing & Inventory Your Plan Management Options

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Goal Setting

This guys cute but I think the binoculars imply looking forward better… Can you get the other pic? Barb cute pic of boy and binoculars on pg 4

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Goal Setting

General Guidelines to Consider: Encourage native species Discourage invasive species Minimize runoff Avoid construction damage Remember your neighbors

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Goal Setting - Homework

Insert homework page for discussion…Barb you’re working on that right?

Assessing & Inventory

Connectivity

Assessing & Inventory

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USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zones

Assessing & Inventory

Assessing & Inventory

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Special Forest Products

Can you include the maple syrup picture from page 35? Something to diversify from mushrooms…

Your Plan

Develop your own land management plan! Include: Your goals Your inventory Your management objectives

Your Plan

I’d like to put several images of these various plans. I realize they likely won’t look like much, just paper and words, but I’d like to stack them so folks realize there are some options. Do either of you have plan covers you can scan in?

Develop a Plan

I don’t know the plans well enough – but should we recommend one of the plans mentioned on the previous slide and talk about it in more detail?

Or we could have a plan as an example and talk through it to review imporant sections…

Management Options

Improving wildlife habitat and viewing